Re: git log --stat FILE

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2010, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <m339up48vz.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <yf9wrs1fili.fsf@chiyo.mc.pp.se>

Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:

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> Hi guys.
> 
> I'm probably just missing something here, but I've run across a rather
> annoying behavior of log.
> 
> When I do "git log --stat FILE", then only commits which touch FILE
> are displayed, as expected.  However, contrary to expectation (well,
> my expectation at least), the stat shows that only one file (FILE) is
> modified by the commits, even if they actually modified multiple files.
> That's not what I wanted; I used FILE to select commits, not to
> control how they are presented.  In fact, the information which is
> hidden is exactly that which I wanted to see; the whole reason for the
> --stat was that I wanted to know what _other_ files were modified
> together with FILE.
> 
> What's worse, I could not find how to circumvent this behavior, [...]

See --full-diff option to git-log.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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