Re: [PATCH] Add --filedirstat diff option

[Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:55:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> realized that I forgot to mention one thing.
> 
> The name.
> 
> "filedirstat" is simply too long to type, and it has a certain "Huh?"
> factor --- is it about file, or is it about directory?
> 
> This option essentially is just the dirstat but with different logic to
> compute how big the damage is.  Conceptually, the original one gives one
> "damage point" to each added or deleted line.
> 
>         $ git show --dirstat=<one-point-per-line>
> 
> and yours awards one point to each file, whatever the size of the damage
> is.
> 
>         $ git show --dirstat=<one-point-per-file>
> 
> I cannot come up with a short-and-sweet name for one-point-per-X offhand,
> but expressing this variant as an option to --dirstat will leave the door
> open for other people to come up with different system to award damage
> points.  Perhaps
> 
> 	$ git show --dirstat=exclude-typofixes
> 
> might even be not just interesting but useful ;-)

I wouldn't add new semantics for --dirstat=x since it's easy to add 
new options. We already have --cumulative, so adding options is not 
new. How about "--dirstat --filemode"? It's long, but it is obvious. I 
don't think length is relevant here. A shorter but obscure syntax would 
be "--dirstat2" :-) 

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