Re: Diff --stat for files that differ only in whitespace

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:10:44AM -0400, Matt Rogers wrote:

> When using a repository with "core.autocrlf=false" I'm trying to run a diff
> between two commits that have many files (~1000) changed that differ mostly
> in line endings or other whitespace.  When I run
> `git diff --stat --ignore-all-space <commit-1> <commit-2>` I'm getting an output
> that has many files listed like:
> 
> some-file.txt | 0

This seemed familiar, so I dug up some prior discussion here:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/1484704915.2096.16.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

We didn't come to a resolution there, but there is a patch to play with,
and I think nobody was opposed to the notion that with the right
code change we could be suppressing these whitespace-only stat lines

-Peff



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