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Re: [PATCH] format-patch: set default stat_width to 72

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 4, 2008, 06:12 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> format-patch already defaults to "--stat --summary -p" if you give it
>> no format options. The default stat is 80, I believe; for format-patch
>> it should probably be bumped to 72 anyway.
> This should be totally harmless and maint-worthy, I would think.
Harmless it might be, in the sense that it won't eat your data.

But it loses information, and I am not sure if it is worth it. Why do you even worry about "a few layers of quoting"? Isn't it a much worse offense from responder/commenter's part to quote and NOT trimming diffstat part?
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