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Re: diff without num-stat

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2010, 17:47 UTC
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Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
> Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes
> for push notification emails.  I didn't realize that the intention of
> --stat was to be completely compatible with `diffstat'.
I think you have it somewhat backwards.

Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with, the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command output.

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