Hi Yves, demerphq wrote: > It seems like the --summary option only works in combination --stat. > > It doesn't seem to work if I use it by itself, nor in combination with > --name-status or --num-stat. And depending on the order, it either > does nothing, or causes a usage note. It is tricky, but as you noticed --summary is not actually about the diffstat. --summary affects the output summarizing new files and renamed files. Example: $ git diff --summary v1.7.2..v1.7.3 delete mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.1.txt delete mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.2.txt [...] > $ git diff --name-status --sumary HEAD^ > usage: git diff <options> <rev>{0,2} -- <path>* There is an 'm' missing here. :) Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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