Am 22.09.2011 um 19:51 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > So perhaps a good sanity-check for you to try (note: not checking your > sanity, but checking the sanity of the above analysis) would be to do: > > $ git show 48a07e7e53 -- $that_path | diffstat > $ git show -U0 48a07e7e53 -- $that_path | diffstat > $ git show --numstat 48a07e7e53 -- $that_path > $ git show --stat 48a07e7e53 -- $that_path [...] > Applying the following patch should make the last two use the default > context or -U$num given from the command line to be consistent with the > codepath where we generate textual patches. > > diff.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c > index 9038f19..302ef33 100644 > --- a/diff.c > +++ b/diff.c > @@ -2251,6 +2251,8 @@ static void builtin_diffstat(const char *name_a, const char *name_b, > memset(&xpp, 0, sizeof(xpp)); > memset(&xecfg, 0, sizeof(xecfg)); > xpp.flags = o->xdl_opts; > + xecfg.ctxlen = o->context; > + xecfg.interhunkctxlen = o->interhunkcontext; > xdi_diff_outf(&mf1, &mf2, diffstat_consume, diffstat, > &xpp, &xecfg); > } First of all: thank you for your extended feedback, your respectful e-mails and your patch! I did some benachmarking. I compared git version 1.7.6.3 with 1.7.7.rc2 and 1.7.7.rc2 with the above patch. My test setup: git version 1.7.6.3: 740a8fc2 git version 1.7.7.rc2: 167a5800 git version 1.7.7.rc2': 167a5800 with the above patch applied. Tuple (15,07) shows 15 lines added and 7 lines removed $ git show $rev -- $that_path | diffstat $ git show -U0 $rev -- $that_path | diffstat $ git log --numstat -n1 --oneline $rev $ git show --stat --oneline -n1 $rev -- $that_path Test 1: repo='https://github.com/voldemort/voldemort.git' rev='48a07e7e' that_path='src/java/voldemort/server/storage/StorageService.java' Results: 1.7.6.3 1.7.7.rc2 1.7.7.rc2' (10,09) (10,09) (10,09) (11,10) (10,09) (10,09) (11,10) (10,09) (10,09) (11,10) (10,09) (10,09) Test 2: repo='https://github.com/voldemort/voldemort.git' rev='c21ad764' that_path='contrib/hadoop-store-builder/src/java/voldemort/store/readonly/mr/HadoopStoreBuilderReducer.java' Results: 1.7.6.3 1.7.7.rc2 1.7.7.rc2' (30,27) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) (25,22) Test 3: repo='private repo' rev='bd61f26e' that_path='[...]JmeterTest/loadtests/JMeterLoadTest.jmx' Results: 1.7.6.3 1.7.7.rc2 1.7.7.rc2' (450,3544) (450,3544) (450,3544) (401,3495) (401,3495) (401,3495) (401,3495) (401,3495) (450,3544) (401,3495) (401,3495) (450,3544) In Test 1 the patch seems to be different formatted from 1.7.7.rc2, so the context doesn't matter with the newer version. In Test 2 the patch seems to be different formatted from 1.7.7.rc2, so the context doesn't matter with the newer version. In Test 3 (which is a private repo) where a lot of different lines where changes, some single lines, some multiple lines long makes the biggest difference. With the different contexts different output is observed. I'm sorry that I can not find an open source example for that, but your patch seems to fix this. So it seems that the patch output in general changed between 1.7.6.3 and 1.7.7.rc2. If I had the right to vote for your patch, I would give it a +1 :-) Greetings from Berlin Alex PS: Will this patch be in the final version of 1.7.7?-- 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