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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> The other big difference is being able to do merges in seconds. The 
> biggest cost of doing a big merge these days seems to literally be 
> generating the diffstat of the changes at the end (which is purely a UI 
> issue, but one that I find so important that I'll happily take the extra 
> few seconds for that, even if it sometimes effectively doubles the 
> overhead).

An interesting effect on this is when people have a column for
merge performance in a SCM comparison table, they would include
time to run the diffstat as part of the time spent for merging
when they fill in the number for git, but not for any other SCM.

I know you won't misunderstand me but for the sake of others, I
should add this: I am not saying diffstat should be optional.