Eli Barzilay <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 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