From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:44:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show binary file size change in diff --stat
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702281535070.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702281303.11951.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> Previously, a binary file in the diffstat would show as:
> 
>  some-binary-file.bin       |  Bin
> 
> The space after the "Bin" was never used.  This patch changes binary
> lines in the diffstat to be:
> 
>  some-binary-file.bin       |  Bin +123456B -12345B

This seemed as a good idea to me at first. But I think it is a little 
misleading: Imagine for example that you have raw image data (which I 
track with Git, too). If only part of that changes, this representation is 
misleading.

How about "Bin 123456 -> 12345 bytes" instead?

Ciao,
Dscho