On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> For reviewers, a couple fewer lines from diffstat (either cover letter >> or patches) is a good thing because there's less to read. > > I can certainly accept that there may be some reviewers who share > that view, but me personally, I would rather have them outside the > main diffstat section, so addition and removal of files that are > rarer events do stand out. > > I guess people would not mind an option to use it, but they can > already say "git format-patch --compact-summary $upstream..", so... Good point. I can't negate --summary though. But that calls for another patch. -- Duy