From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:47:08 GMT
Subject: Re: diff without num-stat
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In-Reply-To: <19409.54647.62163.893635@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

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.