git diff <-> diffstat

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:34:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > Right now I just pipe 'git diff master..branch' to diffstat.
> 
> Ok. That just means that you can change it do say
> 
> 	git diff -M --stat --summary master..branch
> 
> and you get exactly what you need. No need for a separate diffstat at all, 
> and you get all the renaming and summary printout.

Is there any way for "git diff" to handle additional options diffstat 
handles? I'm a big fan of the -w72 diffstat option.

Oh, and with git 1.4.2.1,
  git diff -M --stat --summary v2.6.18..master
in your tree gives me some funny lines like:

 .../netlabel/draft-ietf-cipso-ipsecurity-01.txt    |  791 +
 .../{cpu_setup_power4.S => cpu_setup_ppc970.S}     |  103 
 .../powerpc/platforms}/iseries/it_exp_vpd_panel.h  |    6 
 .../powerpc/platforms}/iseries/it_lp_naca.h        |    6 

I don't know what's going wrong here, but diffstat doesn't produce this.

> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

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