On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Ping Yin wrote: >> $ git diff --stat HEAD^.. >> 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > In the kernel, we use "git diff --stat --summary" for exactly this reason. > > Well, not exactly. > > The thing is, even if the file is _not_ empty, there's a huge difference > between "added 100 lines to an already-existing file" and "created a new > 100-line file". Which is exactly what "--summary" adds. > > And it sometimes even makes sense to show the summary without the > diffstat. If you're _only_ interested in create/delete/rename information, > you can do "git show --summary <cmit>". It won't give you line counts, but > it will give you information about any changes to filenames, eg in the > kernel archive, you could see an example of this with > > git show -M --summary 95b482a8d31116f3f5c2a5089569393234d06385 > > where you have a combination of renames, creates and deletes. > > So I think it's already better than what you ask for. > > Linus > Thanks. --summary works. I just want to get all changed files. I think "git diff --name-status A..B" should be better. Ping Yin -- 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
