Re: [PATCH] format-patch: set diffstat width to 70 instead of default 80

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:10:43AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Jan 22 2018, Jeff King jotted:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:31:54PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> >> +	opts.diffopt.stat_width = 70;
> >>
> >>  	diff_setup_done(&opts);
> >
> > I wondered how this should interact with any config, but I don't think
> > you can actually configure the stat-width. You _can_ configure
> > diff.statgraphwidth, though, which seems like a funny inconsistency.
> 
> Isn't the numeric argument to --stat (this works with/without this
> patch):
> 
>     $ git format-patch -10 --stdout --stat=30 -- t|grep -m 5 ' | '
>      ...submodule-update.sh | 1 +
>      ...ule-update.sh | 14 ++++++
>      ...-addresses.sh | 27 ---
>      t/t9000/test.pl  | 67 ------
>      ...send-email.sh | 19 ++++++
>     $ git format-patch -10 --stdout --stat=90 -- t|grep -m 5 ' | '
>      t/lib-submodule-update.sh | 1 +
>      t/lib-submodule-update.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
>      t/t9000-addresses.sh | 27 -------------------------
>      t/t9000/test.pl      | 67 --------------------------------------------------------------
>      t/t9001-send-email.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++++

Yeah, I meant by actual on-disk config. I didn't actually look at the
patch closely, but I assumed that "format-patch --stat=90" would still
override this (if not, then I think that would be a bug).

-Peff