On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:46:16PM -0600, Carter Lamb wrote: > I use git diff --summary --numstat <commit> to report the files > modified, created, and deleted between the current commit and some > prior commit. The --stat and --numstat options count the lines added > and deleted for each file. Is there a way to report the lines modified > for each file. For example: Not really, because it's not well defined. Consider your example: > Given content below for commit 1: > aaaaa > ccccc > > Given content below for commit 2: > aaaaa > bbbbb > ccccc > > Given content below for commit 3: > Aaaaa > Bbbbb > ccccc > ddddd How do we know that "Aaaaa" is a modification of line "aaaaa", and not simply the deletion of the old line and the addition of a new one? It's easy to come up with a case where that is more obvious: -aaaaa +ddddd but there are many shades of gray in between. Is: -aaaaa +Aaada the deletion of an old line and the introduction of a new one, or the modification of an existing line? So fundamentally the diff format just deals with added and removed lines, and modifications are represented as a delete followed by an add. Which isn't to say you couldn't think of many clever algorithms for heuristically determining a modification, but git doesn't do that itself in numstat. -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