Re: [PATCH 4/6] combine-diff: treat --shortstat like --stat

>
> The --stat of a combined diff is defined as the first-parent stat,
> going all the way back to 965f803c32 (combine-diff: show diffstat with
> the first parent., 2006-04-17).
>
> Naturally, we gave --numstat the same treatment in 74e2abe5b7 (diff
> --numstat, 2006-10-12).
>
> But --shortstat, which is really just the final line of --stat, does
> nothing, which produces confusing results:
>
>   $ git show --oneline --stat eab7584e37
>   eab7584e37 Merge branch 'en/show-ref-doc-fix'
>
>    Documentation/git-show-ref.txt | 2 +-
>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>   $ git show --oneline --shortstat eab7584e37
>   eab7584e37 Merge branch 'en/show-ref-doc-fix'
>
>   [nothing! We'd expect to see the "1 file changed..." line]
>
> This patch teaches combine-diff to treats the two formats identically.
>
> Reported-by: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>