Eli Barzilay [off-list ref] writes:
Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes
for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the intention of
--stat was to be completely compatible with `diffstat'.
I think you have it somewhat backwards.
Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with,
the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever
it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command
output.
On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Eli Barzilay [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of
changes for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the
intention of --stat was to be completely compatible with
`diffstat'.
I think you have it somewhat backwards.
Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with,
the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever
it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command
output.
(That's true only if the intended audience of these notifications are
people who are familiar with diffstat output.)
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