Re: suggestions for gitweb

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 13, 2007, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabw9v906.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <f25mic$1b1$2@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Lines of code and file sizes: file size needs additional invocation
> per each file for gitweb; it would be easier for cgit. Costly! Counting
> LOC is even more costly: take note that 1.) gitweb operates directly
> on repository / object database, and does not use working area, 
> 2.) git is snapshot based and not changeset based.

We earlier discussed to make --numstat to allow us add this kind of information for easier script consumption.

Perhaps instead of modifying --numstat, we may be better off to add another format that can be more easily extended to support other things, like we do for the --porcelain format out of git-blame? It does not have to be one line per record, like the way --numstat was done, which was primarily in order to make it a compact, human readable format.