Re: git log --stat FILE

From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se>
Date: Aug 8, 2010, 12:35 UTC
Message-ID: <yf9bp9ds2mz.fsf@chiyo.mc.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <201008081426.21705.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Diffstat is just a diff format (a way of presenting diff); '--stat'
> is described in "Common _diff_ options" of git-log(1) manpage.
>
> But whats obvoud to me might not be obvious to everyone.

To me (and probably many others), a "diff" is the output of the command "/usr/bin/diff". I notice that git seems to refer to this as a "patch" instead. Nevertheless, the documentation of --full-diff explicitly talks about "log -p", rather than "diffs" in general. So it's not clear from the documentation that it affects other types of diffs than those produced by -p ("patches").

  // Marcus