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Re: [PATCH 0/8 v6] diff --stat: use the full terminal width

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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2012, 07:29 UTC
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek  <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes:
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> I use (or would like to be able to use) the --stat output to select with
> the mouse and paste into something like
>   emacsclient -n <pathname>
> This would be harder with the grouping, because I'd have to select two
> parts and paste two times and type a slash. So for me this would be a
> minus.

Of course, git's diffstats often already violate that property (e.g., abbreviations and the renaming syntax)... In cases where such a grouping syntax avoids information-losing abbreviations, it might even be an improvement over the current situation (even if the info was split up, at least it would be there).

If the heuristics were tuned so that the syntax only kicked in for cases where deep nesting or long names would otherwise make abbreviations likely, maybe it would be a general improvement.

However, it does seem like the additional inconsistency of presentation might make diffstats harder to read or more ugly in some cases...

-miles
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Message 34 of 35 in “diff --stat: use the full terminal width”
  1. 0/8 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  2. 1/8 make lineno_width() from blame reusable for othersZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  3. 2/8 diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  4. 3/8 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  5. 4/8 show --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  6. 5/8 log --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  7. 6/8 merge --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  8. 7/8 diff --stat: limit graph part to 40 columnsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  9. 8/8 diff --stat: use less columns for change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 20, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  11. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 21, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2012
  13. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 21, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2012
  15. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 22, 2012
  16. 1/8 diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename partZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 22, 2012
  17. 2/8 diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 22, 2012
  18. 3/8 diff --stat: limit graph part to 40 columnsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 22, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2012
  20. 0/11 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  21. 01/11 make lineno_width() from blame reusable for othersZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  22. 02/11 diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  23. 03/11 diff --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  24. 04/11 show --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  25. 05/11 log --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  26. 06/11 merge --stat: use the full terminal widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  27. 07/11 diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename partZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  28. 08/11 diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  29. 09/11 diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph partZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  30. 10/11 diff --stat: add config option to limit graph widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  31. 11/11 diff --stat: use less columns for change countsZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Feb 24, 2012
  32. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 21, 2012
  33. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekFeb 21, 2012
  34. Miles BaderFeb 23, 2012
  35. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2012

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