Sort output of diff --stat?

I'd like to sort the output of `git diff --stat` such that files are listed in descending order based on number of lines changed. The closest solution I've found online[1] has several readability issues. I'd rather see a built-in solution in git, if one exists. Can anyone recommend a solution?

[1]: https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/7599177

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:15:18PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

Hmm, I feel like another person asked for this recently, but I can't seem to find the thread.

Anyway, no, I don't think there's a solution short of parsing the output (you could parse --numstat, which is at least sane, but then you'd have to generate your own visual diffstat, which has a lot of corner cases).

We have --orderfile, but that's about a static order based on filename. It seems reasonable to me for "--stat" to learn an option to sort (that would not affect, say, the total diff order, since sorting by line count makes very little sense for most other formats).

-Peff

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:47 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

Is it this one? https://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg159212.html

That's the only one I was able to find, but no one replied. Thanks for your insight. I didn't get my hopes up, but maybe someday it'll be added.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:21:57PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:

Ah, yeah, that's the one. For some reason I thought I had replied, but obviously I did not. ;)

-Peff