From: Eric Sunshine Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:26:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] range-diff: add a --no-patch option to show a summary Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20181105200650.31177-1-avarab@gmail.com> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:07 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Add a --no-patch option which shows which changes got removed, added > or moved etc., without showing the diff associated with them. This option existed in the very first version[1] of range-diff (then called branch-diff) implemented by Dscho, although it was called --no-patches (with an "es"), which it inherited from tbdiff. I think someone (possibly me) pointed out that --no-patch (sans "es") would be more consistent with existing Git options. I don't recall why Dscho removed the option during the re-rolls, but the explanation may be in that thread. I was also wondering if --summarize or --summary-only might be a better name, describing the behavior at a higher level, but since there is precedent for --no-patch (or --no-patches in tbdiff), perhaps the name is fine as is. The patch itself looks okay. [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/8bc517e35d4842f8d9d98f3b99adb9475d6db2d2.1525361419.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de/