On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > That's because you are doing a diff stat of changes that haven't been > checked in yet. I was doing a "git log -p origin.. | diffstat -p1", > and in that incantation you definitely do need the -p1 to diffstat. You should *always* use "-p1" to diffstat, because if you don't, diffstat just makes up the paths totally (the same way you should always use "-p1" to GNU 'patch'). The fact is, diffstat just guesses, based on the prefix. But those guesses will be totally bogus at times, especially if you have newly created files (I _think_ that is because one of the pathnames in the diff is /dev/null, and that will apparently throw off the guesses). So if you don't use an explicit "-p1", diffstat will guess the -p level from the longest common path prefix, _but_ get that wrong for some paths anyway, so sometimes you'll see the "a/" prefix etc. Of course, rather than using diffstat at all, just do something like git diff --stat origin.. instead. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
