On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:21:27PM -0600, Pat Notz wrote: > I'd like to probe various commits to see how many lines were added or > removed. For example, > > $ git diff --shortstat HEAD HEAD^1 > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > That's great but I'd like to do this from a script and parse out those > numbers. Is there a more plumbing-level way to do this that would be > more robust? Or, should I just parse this output? The official plumbing way is --numstat, but you will have to sum the totals for file yourself. You should also use "git diff-tree" over "git diff". If you have a lot of commits, the simplest thing is something like: git diff-tree --stdin --numstat <commits which will automatically check each commit against its parent (though I think diff-tree will not resolve refs for you, so you may need massage the input). -Peff -- 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