From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcus Comstedt Subject: Re: git log --stat FILE Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:33:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <201008081426.21705.jnareb@gmail.com> <201008081508.53732.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Lars Hjemli , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 08 15:33:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oi602-0001tw-Sa for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:33:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754054Ab0HHNdJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:33:09 -0400 Received: from ua-85-227-1-6.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.227.1.6]:41260 "EHLO bahamut.mc.pp.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753700Ab0HHNdI (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:33:08 -0400 Received: from chiyo.mc.pp.se (chiyo [192.168.42.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bahamut.mc.pp.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1409FE9BA; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:33:04 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mc.pp.se; s=hedgehog; t=1281274385; bh=nkpQjknPSRouFWl/zgjBuXt9HKjy/osa+jF6DatvO2Y=; h=To:Cc:Subject:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=C87ikGzu9RPSFHMAepYTvd1+QUCXqGqO/EFWm SGb2CSFy4+IFHOieaST1z1ivya4fjC7L1cixsZEHrCva6Z9m6UUAoQ8zlMtxs6pRFpb bFqg+qK7VaBmTivYQdIAyLxynF6ort0s6kCOho/D44pK2BCNt4Wh6yKHaf4J0oIMJWc = Received: from marcus by chiyo.mc.pp.se with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Oi5zr-0005Ch-7t; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:33:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <201008081508.53732.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:08:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > To me (and probably many others), a "diff" is something that describe > differences between two versions (compares two version). Jakub, there is no need for you to explain or justify why this is obvious to you. I have no problem accepting that at face value. I'm simply trying to explain why this was not obvious to me, in the hope of aiding any effort in improving the documentation. After all, writing documentation for something you feel is obvious is very difficult. But if you feel that the documentation is fine as it is, that is also your privilege. > Note that 'GNU diff' (and other "/usr/bin/diff") supports three > output formats: ed based, context and unified formats. Indeed, and all those qualify as "diffs" in my mindset. I would however not consider the output of "diff -q" as a true "diff", and naturally not the output of "diff --version". // Marcus