Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat lines

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

I would even consider a default of 10 (i.e. show a 20 line stat in full,
abbreviate larger ones) to be sensible but have refrained from such a
behaviour change.

We have hardcoded defaults for width (80) and name-width (50), so having
one for lines should be okay also. Can I has tis wiz default? ;)

The terminal has fixed width to be apportioned but has an infinite height
with scrolling, so that comparison is somewhat bogus.

This should be called "count", not "lines".  Anticipate a future where we
introduce a variant of --stat (in a way similar to how --numstat is a
variant of --stat) that displays its result with two lines per entry.

Also getting (N+1) "lines" output for specifying N feels very unnatural.