Re: diff without num-stat

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02:

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`git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the
numstat?  (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and
I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.)

So, what DO you want? Except for the different formatting:

--stat output minus --numstat output == summary line

where "summary line" is something like

5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Do you want to (a)void the numstat or the summary?

Summary is "create mode ..." etc. and you can already enable/disable it.

That "N files +M/-N lines in total" is _not_ a summary; it is an integral
part of ascii-graphical --stat output, which is supposed to produce output
like "git diff -p | diffstat".  We won't split it out of --stat without a
very good reason, there doesn't seem to be an option to "diffstat" for
such a thing, so...