From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:06:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (amend)] diff: Make numstat machine friendly also for renames (and copies)
Message-ID: <7vejdujazu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712102355.39084.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Previous version of this patch (from 7 May 2007) used instead of current
> only "to_name" format similar to git-diff-tree raw format for renames:
>
>   added deleted TAB path for "src" TAB path for "dst" LF
>     
> The problem was when -z option was used: how to separate end of record
> from end of from_name and start of to_name. For git-diff we have status
> to distinguish those; no such thing for numstat output. Previous version
> of patch used (or was to use actually, because of error in the code)
>
>   added deleted TAB path for "src" NUL NUL path for "dst" NUL
>
> when -z option was used.

I think the cleanest at this point is to have --numstat-enhanced that
shows

	<added> <deleted> <status> <path1>
        <added> <deleted> <status> <path1> <path2>

Anything else would be a regression.