Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] diff: add --stat-with-summary (was --compact-summary)

> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 2:59 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Changes since v2 [1]:
>>>>
>>>> - goes back to my original version (yay!) where the extra info
>>>>   is appended after the path name. More is described in 2/2
>>>> - --compact-summary is now renamed --stat-with-summary and implies
>>>>   --stat
>>>> - 1/2 is just a cleanup patch to make it easier to add 2/2
>>>
>>> It may be just me and other old timers, but --X-with-Y naming means
>>> quite different thing around these commands, and --stat-with-summary
>>> would hint, at least to us, that it would behave as if the two
>>> options "--stat --summary" are given at the same time.
>>>
>>> And from that point of view, the new name is a bit confusing one.
>>
>> I don't have any good alternative name to be honest. It's kinda hard
>> to come up with another word that says "extended header information
>> such as creations, renames and mode changes", except maybe the vague
>> name --stat-extended?
>
> I actually think compact-summary was a good way to phrase it.
>
> Personally, I think it was a UI mistake that --summary can be given
> independently with or without --stat (instead, there shouldn't have
> been the --summary option, and instead when it was added, --stat
> just should have gained an extra kind of output).  A single option
> that can give both kinds of info may be a good way forward, so
> another possibility may be --summary-in-stat (meaning: the info
> given by summary is included in stat output).  I dunno.
>