# git diffstat feature suggestion

2 messages from 2010-09-11 to 2010-09-14. Participants: Marc Bejarano, Thomas Dickey.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25077

## Marc Bejarano, 2010-09-11 20:35

Subject: git diffstat feature suggestion
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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.

i couldn't find an issue tracker for git so that this could be tracked
properly.  is there one?

cheers,
marc

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## Thomas Dickey, 2010-09-14 00:33

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.

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