Re: Sort output of diff --stat?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 17, 2018, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20181017184720.GF28326@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499BSVRytaFKOUhE=A4Zv+MMx=uKrWKUcT13QwzOCZWhEtg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:15:18PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

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> I'd like to sort the output of `git diff --stat` such that files are
> listed in descending order based on number of lines changed. The
> closest solution I've found online[1] has several readability issues.
> I'd rather see a built-in solution in git, if one exists. Can anyone
> recommend a solution?

Hmm, I feel like another person asked for this recently, but I can't seem to find the thread.

Anyway, no, I don't think there's a solution short of parsing the output (you could parse --numstat, which is at least sane, but then you'd have to generate your own visual diffstat, which has a lot of corner cases).

We have --orderfile, but that's about a static order based on filename. It seems reasonable to me for "--stat" to learn an option to sort (that would not affect, say, the total diff order, since sorting by line count makes very little sense for most other formats).

-Peff