Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff --stat: sometimes use non-linear scaling.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

When some files have big changes and others are touched only
slightly, diffstat graph did not show differences among smaller
changes that well.  This changes the graph scaling to non-linear
algorithm in such a case.

Ok, this is just _strange_.

while with this, it shows:

 .gitignore                       |    1
 Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt   |    3 +++++++++

No _way_ is it correct to show more than three characters if there were 
three lines of changes.

I think "nonlinear" is fine, but this is something that is "superlinear" 
in small changes, and then sublinear in bigger ones (and then apparently 
totally wrong for one-line changes).

It should at least never be superlinear, I believe.

		Linus