On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 03:26:16PM -0400, Matt Rogers wrote: > > 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 > > > I think for now I'm going to feed --numstat into a script like Junio suggested. > Out of curiosity what would it take to get that patch into git? Is it just a > matter of someone just verifying it and submitting it? Yeah, I think it would require making an argument that the patch covers the correct set of cases (or fixing it if it doesn't), and probably adding some tests. -Peff
