On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. (That's true only if the intended audience of these notifications are people who are familiar with diffstat output.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! -- 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