From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:30:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: allow --no-patch to disable patch output
Message-ID: <xmqqh9fcvtqg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xoUi5H19zOCAiiwQZ0-j8yNZS9-2DzgoMmLSVOrC8Nbpw@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> So if I want to get the summary of a patch out of a commit without the
> actual diff what would you suggest?

"git log --stat"?

If you have a set of (discrete) commits, "git show --stat A B C"?

> Basically, I have a process where we have post processed code, and I
> want to be able to generate a "patch" that shows the diff only of the
> post-processed code, ie:

If you want to script and depend on the exact output, you cannot
depend on "log" or "show", so you would likely be doing "cat-file
commit" for log message part and "diff-tree" (with options like -p
and --stat) for the patch part, I guess.