From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 22:20:48 GMT Subject: Re: diffstat witdth with one changed file Message-ID: <7vehqd6urj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Andreas Schwab writes: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > >> 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? > > In commit 0e641b1 the file has only 41 lines of changes, so it looks > intentional. Correct. We do not try to make width of bars from two different commits comparable [*1*], but we do try to make them comparable within a single commit; for a commit that changes only a single path, you still have adds and removals to compare. The overall length is ideally one + or - per line if the graph fits the output width, but if that makes the graph too wide, we scale to fit in the output width. So a change with 41 lines gets only 41 +/- and does not consume full 80-column terminal. [Footnote] *1* This is very much on purpose; otherwise it will hurt the perceived latency of the command.