From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610200857250.3962@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <eha9no$5t7$1@sea.gmane.org>



On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > An interesting effect on this is when people have a column for
> > merge performance in a SCM comparison table, they would include
> > time to run the diffstat as part of the time spent for merging
> > when they fill in the number for git, but not for any other SCM.
> 
> So if you want to compare merge performance with other SCM, you should
> either add time to run diffstat for other SCM, or substract time to
> run "git diff-tree --stat".

Naah. Just run "git pull -n". It's even documented:

	OPTIONS
	       -n, --no-summary
	              Do not show diffstat at the end of the merge.

so while the _default_ is to always show the diffstat, you certainly can 
easily do without it.

		Linus