Re: diffstat witdth with one changed file

From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: May 22, 2012, 05:59 UTC
Message-ID: <4FBB2B4B.6030402@in.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BrqaLbtVp5uF3q2Jo63DPwtFACYw3_rPy8eyNK7VSWMw@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/21/2012 05:52 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> With recent git, "git log --stat 90e6ef5", the first commit's diffstat
> uses full terminal width while the next one uses less than 80 chars.
> Both changes one file. Is it intentional? I tend to think it's a bug
> because with one-file changes, diffstat width is not important as we
> have no other files to compare with.

Hi, 90e6ef5 makes 502 additions/deletions, so it scales the +- part to the whole available terminal width. 90e6ef5^ does only 41 additions, so it can display the +- part unscaled without even filling the terminal width.

Since we don't coordinate the diffstat width between different commits in the same git-log invocation, there's no way to make the diffstats use the same scale. Anyway, diffstat is only supposed to give a rough overview, and it does that here.

What output would you expect?

Zbyszek