# Sort output of diff --stat? 4 messages from 2018-10-17 to 2018-10-17. Participants: Robert Dailey, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49599 ## Robert Dailey, 2018-10-17 18:15 Subject: Sort output of diff --stat? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHd499BSVRytaFKOUhE%3DA4Zv%2BMMx%3DuKrWKUcT13QwzOCZWhEtg%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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 ``` ## Jeff King, 2018-10-17 18:47 Subject: Re: Sort output of diff --stat? Message-ID: <20181017184720.GF28326@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181017184720.GF28326%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:15:18PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > 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? 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 ``` ## Robert Dailey, 2018-10-17 19:21 Subject: Re: Sort output of diff --stat? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHd499Ci-DTtv%3DzKBY-9N60qS9TxerckHNzkOkeiZmUp4jDq_Q%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20181017184720.GF28326@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:47 PM Jeff King wrote: > Hmm, I feel like another person asked for this recently, but I can't > seem to find the thread. 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. ``` ## Jeff King, 2018-10-17 19:25 Subject: Re: Sort output of diff --stat? Message-ID: <20181017192546.GA31563@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181017192546.GA31563%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:21:57PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:47 PM Jeff King wrote: > > Hmm, I feel like another person asked for this recently, but I can't > > seem to find the thread. > > 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. Ah, yeah, that's the one. For some reason I thought I had replied, but obviously I did not. ;) -Peff ```