From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:14:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Make "git log --count" work like "git rev-list"
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kan3yavtQOPAHUdkjTXeHpCGPb-igtNMPXjS6GCxOCS+Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190109195428.GA12645@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> Unfortunately I'm not sure of an easy fix. We'd have to tell the log
> code "figure out if you're going to show the commit, but don't actually
> show anything", which means respecting the count flag virtually
> everywhere that would produce output.

This is (partially) solved for commit parts already,
e6e045f803 (diff.c: buffer all output if asked to, 2017-06-29)
but we'd have to extend that to revision walking?