From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:33:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git diffstat feature suggestion
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On Sep 11, 4:35 pm, Marc Bejarano <b...@beej.org> wrote:
> hi.
>
> i find the diffstats that get posted to development mailing lists from
> people using (i'm guessing) quilt to be great. one improvement that
> comes to mind would be some sort of option that just tallies changes
> in actual lines of code, ignoring whitespace and comments.

fwiw, I don't recall seeing any patches from quilt (I don't use it).

To track whitespace and comments, it would of course be necessary to
make the diff program know about various program's syntaxes.