From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:12:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: set default stat_width to 72
Message-ID: <7vr6dmywqg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080403102214.GA23121@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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?