Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.26-rc5

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

> >  27 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)
> 
> Hmm. I get very different statistics:
> 
>  27 files changed, 434 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)
> 
> You seem to use "git diff -w" to ignore whitespace changes, which explains 
> it, but please don't - it makes it harder to compare with expected 
> results, and it hides some changes entirely.
> 
> I do agree that using '-w' is often useful, but especially for the purpose 
> of letting people know what changed it kind of avoids the point by hiding 
> many things.

Yes, I've been using "-b" recently:

git diff -b -M --stat linus..$RELEASE

and if I remove the "-b", we match:

 27 files changed, 434 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)

I have a vague memory of having a good reason to cut over to "-b"
a while back and noting that in my pull request, but if you prefer
no -b, no problem.

thanks,
-Len