Re: diffstat witdth with one changed file

Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] writes:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

With recent git, "git log --stat 90e6ef5", the first commit's diffstat
uses full terminal width while the next one uses less than 80 chars.
Both changes one file. Is it intentional?

In commit 0e641b1 the file has only 41 lines of changes, so it looks
intentional.

Correct.  We do not try to make width of bars from two different commits
comparable [*1*], but we do try to make them comparable within a single
commit; for a commit that changes only a single path, you still have adds
and removals to compare.  The overall length is ideally one + or - per
line if the graph fits the output width, but if that makes the graph too
wide, we scale to fit in the output width.  So a change with 41 lines gets
only 41 +/- and does not consume full 80-column terminal.

[Footnote]

*1* This is very much on purpose; otherwise it will hurt the perceived
latency of the command.