On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/21/2012 05:52 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With recent git, "git log --stat 90e6ef5", the first commit's diffstat >> uses full terminal width while the next one uses less than 80 chars. >> Both changes one file. Is it intentional? I tend to think it's a bug >> because with one-file changes, diffstat width is not important as we >> have no other files to compare with. > Hi, > 90e6ef5 makes 502 additions/deletions, so it scales the +- part to the > whole available terminal width. 90e6ef5^ does only 41 additions, so it > can display the +- part unscaled without even filling the terminal width. > > Since we don't coordinate the diffstat width between different commits > in the same git-log invocation, there's no way to make the diffstats use > the same scale. Anyway, diffstat is only supposed to give a rough > overview, and it does that here. Yeah, others have explained it. And it makes sense. > What output would you expect? It just looks weird that while most of the commits fill half of my screen (200 char width), some diffstats strike a line through the right edge. And I did not see the reason for that in the beginning because I thought long lines only makes sense when compare to other lines. -- Duy -- 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