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Re: Oddity in git commit summary

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 16, 2007, 23:01 UTC
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<7vhciii6r0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
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> I just noticed that I got a strange summary from git commit -a --amend 
> with the current master. It said:
>
> Created commit f16cb29: Build in checkout
>  5 files changed, 482 insertions(+), 299 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 builtin-checkout.c
>  delete mode 100755 git-checkout.sh
>
> But git show --stat says:
>  7 files changed, 780 insertions(+), 306 deletions(-)
>
> And git show --stat -C says:
>  6 files changed, 482 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Because "git status" has -B -M and your second one does not pass any, I would not worry about the first two differences. But 5 vs 6 seems funny.

print_summary() is broken.
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 518ebe0..8435702 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -663,6 +665,8 @@ static void print_summary(const char *prefix, const unsigned char *sha1)
 	rev.commit_format = get_commit_format("format:%h: %s");
 	rev.always_show_header = 0;
 
+	diff_setup_done(&rev.diffopt);
+
 	printf("Created %scommit ", initial_commit ? "initial " : "");
 
 	if (!log_tree_commit(&rev, commit)) {
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Message 2 of 5 in “Oddity in git commit summary”
  1. Daniel BarkalowDec 15, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2007
  3. 1/2 builtin-commit: fix summary output.Junio C Hamano, Dec 16, 2007
  4. 2/2 builtin-commit: make summary output consistent with statusJunio C Hamano, Dec 16, 2007
  5. Daniel BarkalowDec 17, 2007

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