Re: diff without num-stat

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2010, 09:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwrvyzfr3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

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> Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02:
>> `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the
>> numstat?  (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and
>> I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.)
>
> So, what DO you want? Except for the different formatting:
>
> --stat output minus --numstat output == summary line
>
> where "summary line" is something like
>
> 5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Do you want to (a)void the numstat or the summary?

Summary is "create mode ..." etc. and you can already enable/disable it.

That "N files +M/-N lines in total" is _not_ a summary; it is an integral part of ascii-graphical --stat output, which is supposed to produce output like "git diff -p | diffstat". We won't split it out of --stat without a very good reason, there doesn't seem to be an option to "diffstat" for such a thing, so...