The number of '-' and '+' is still linear. The idea is that scaled-length := floor(a * length + b) with the following constraints: if length == 1, scaled-length == 1, and the combined length of plusses and minusses should not be larger than the width by a small margin. Thus, a + b == 1 and a * max_plusses + b + a * max_minusses + b = width + 1 The solution is a * x + b = ((width - 1) * (x - 1) + max_change - 1) / (max_change - 1) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> --- While testing this, I hit a bug which was hard to squash: commit v1.3.3~14 _always_ showed no minusses and plusses in the diffstat. Until I realized that the offending diffstat was in the commit _message_ :-) diff.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index 98c29bf..53c30bd 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -640,9 +640,12 @@ const char mime_boundary_leader[] = "--- static int scale_linear(int it, int width, int max_change) { /* - * round(width * it / max_change); + * make sure that at least one '-' is printed if there were deletions, + * and likewise for '+'. */ - return (it * width * 2 + max_change) / (max_change * 2); + if (max_change < 2) + return it; + return ((it - 1) * (width - 1) + max_change - 1) / (max_change - 1); } static void show_name(const char *prefix, const char *name, int len, @@ -774,9 +777,9 @@ static void show_stats(struct diffstat_t dels += del; if (width <= max_change) { - total = scale_linear(total, width, max_change); add = scale_linear(add, width, max_change); - del = total - add; + del = scale_linear(del, width, max_change); + total = add + del; } show_name(prefix, name, len, reset, set); printf("%5d ", added + deleted); -- 1.4.2.1.g89d5d-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html