# diff without num-stat 6 messages from 2010-04-22 to 2010-04-23. Participants: Eli Barzilay, Michael J Gruber, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23573 ## Eli Barzilay, 2010-04-22 19:02 Subject: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <19408.40250.102191.314496@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/19408.40250.102191.314496%40winooski.ccs.neu.edu ``` `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the numstat? (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2010-04-23 08:14 Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BD156F8.5090307%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: <19408.40250.102191.314496@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> ``` Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02: > `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the > numstat? (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and > I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.) So, what DO you want? Except for the different formatting: --stat output minus --numstat output == summary line where "summary line" is something like 5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Do you want to (a)void the numstat or the summary? Michael ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-04-23 09:21 Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <7vwrvyzfr3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vwrvyzfr3.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` Michael J Gruber writes: > Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02: >> `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the >> numstat? (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and >> I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.) > > So, what DO you want? Except for the different formatting: > > --stat output minus --numstat output == summary line > > where "summary line" is something like > > 5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > Do you want to (a)void the numstat or the summary? Summary is "create mode ..." etc. and you can already enable/disable it. That "N files +M/-N lines in total" is _not_ a summary; it is an integral part of ascii-graphical --stat output, which is supposed to produce output like "git diff -p | diffstat". We won't split it out of --stat without a very good reason, there doesn't seem to be an option to "diffstat" for such a thing, so... ``` ## Eli Barzilay, 2010-04-23 17:14 Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <19409.54647.62163.893635@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/19409.54647.62163.893635%40winooski.ccs.neu.edu In-Reply-To: <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` On Apr 23, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02: > > `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the > > numstat? (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and > > I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.) > > So, what DO you want? > [...] > where "summary line" is something like > > 5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) An option that avoids that summary line. On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Summary is "create mode ..." etc. and you can already enable/disable it. Right -- I'm asking about the above numstat summary line, which seems to always be included with `--stat'. > That "N files +M/-N lines in total" is _not_ a summary; it is an > integral part of ascii-graphical --stat output, which is supposed to > produce output like "git diff -p | diffstat". We won't split it out > of --stat without a very good reason, there doesn't seem to be an > option to "diffstat" for such a thing, so... Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the intention of --stat was to be completely compatible with `diffstat'. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-04-23 17:47 Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <7vaasuvz6r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vaasuvz6r.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <19409.54647.62163.893635@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> ``` Eli Barzilay writes: > Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes > for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the intention of > --stat was to be completely compatible with `diffstat'. I think you have it somewhat backwards. Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with, the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command output. ``` ## Eli Barzilay, 2010-04-23 19:45 Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Message-ID: <19409.63699.647720.327239@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/19409.63699.647720.327239%40winooski.ccs.neu.edu In-Reply-To: <7vaasuvz6r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eli Barzilay writes: > > > Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of > > changes for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the > > intention of --stat was to be completely compatible with > > `diffstat'. > > I think you have it somewhat backwards. > > Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with, > the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever > it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command > output. (That's true only if the intended audience of these notifications are people who are familiar with diffstat output.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! ```