From: Matt Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:26:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Diff --stat for files that differ only in whitespace
Message-ID: <CAOjrSZskJRj+TVV35fEp-Mhd+proVV72rh3vAcVFnNfhRy2ayA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200731174149.GB843002@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:41 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> This seemed familiar, so I dug up some prior discussion here:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/1484704915.2096.16.camel@mattmccutchen.net/
>
> We didn't come to a resolution there, but there is a patch to play with,
> and I think nobody was opposed to the notion that with the right
> code change we could be suppressing these whitespace-only stat lines
>
> -Peff


I think for now I'm going to feed --numstat into a script like Junio suggested.
Out of curiosity what would it take to get that patch into git? Is it just a
matter of someone just verifying it and submitting it?

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Matthew Rogers