From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Barzilay Subject: Re: diff without num-stat Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:23 -0400 Message-ID: <19409.63699.647720.327239@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> References: <19408.40250.102191.314496@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net> <7vwrvyzfr3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <19409.54647.62163.893635@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> <7vaasuvz6r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael J Gruber , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 23 21:45:52 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O5Oov-0003He-Ke for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:45:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756251Ab0DWTpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:30 -0400 Received: from winooski.ccs.neu.edu ([129.10.115.117]:38128 "EHLO barzilay.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756053Ab0DWTp2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:28 -0400 Received: from eli by barzilay.org with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1O5OoV-0008U1-LP; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7vaasuvz6r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eli Barzilay writes: > > > Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of > > changes for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the > > intention of --stat was to be completely compatible with > > `diffstat'. > > I think you have it somewhat backwards. > > Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with, > the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever > it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command > output. (That's true only if the intended audience of these notifications are people who are familiar with diffstat output.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!