git diff with add/modified codes

Is there a magic git diff incantation that will add file status codes (Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted (D), Modified (M), Renamed (R)) to the --stat output? I can't see how to get this info on any diff output without doing multiple diffs with --diff-filter.

Would --stat --summary be satisfactory?

On 7/27/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

That's not what I want. I'm looking a report that indicates new files vs modified ones in a single list. These old patches I am working with often create 100 files and modify another 200.

Adding a code like (Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted (D), Modified (M), Renamed (R)) to --stat would be perfect.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:17:54PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

How about --name-status?

-Peff

Jeff King wrote:

Or -r --name-status?

On 7/28/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

-r is not in the git diff doc but it is used in the examples. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html

On Sat, 28 July 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

<quote>
  <2> show only names and the nature of change, but not actual
  diff output.  --name-status disables usual patch generation
  which in turn also disables recursive behavior, so without -r
  you would only see the directory name if there is a change in a
  file in a subdirectory.
</quote>

"Of course" one knows that "git diff <tree-ish> <tree-ish>" is git-diff-tree in disguise, and accepts git-diff-tree options.

By the way, I was thinking about extending --numstat output to include also status. Current --numstat output is ill fitted to deal with renames and copies, at least ill fitted for machine consumption of renames output; it uses "old_name => new_name" as a filename for renames. While it would be fairly easy to put pre- and after-rename names separated by TAB, and quoted if needed (including embedded TAB character in the filename, which would be quoted as \t instead) without breaking anu current --numstat output parsers (although I don't think any of them uses -M/-C), it would be hard to do the same for --numstat -z output. A solution (not best, I admit) would be to use NUL NUL to separate pre- and post-image filename, but I think it would be best to add new --numstat-extended format to git-diff.

P.S. Is binary diff output described somewhere?

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Or does "--raw" do the job?

Ciao, Dscho

On 7/27/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

Raw is much closer. Combine the file stats from --raw with --stat and it would be perfect.