Re: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Use "git diff -M --stat master..for-linus" instead.

Actually, use "git diff -M --stat --summary master..for-linus".

The "--summary" thing generates an additional summary at the end of the 
diffstat that lists deleted/created/moved/copied files, which is nice to 
see. There's a difference between a

   drivers/char/myserial.c  | 50 ++++++++
   1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

and

   drivers/char/myserial.c  | 50 ++++++++
   1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
   create mode 100644 drivers/char/myserial.c

because the latter tells that the new lines are actually in a new file, 
while the previous says that you just added lines to an old one.

(Without "--summary", you can't tell the difference between these two 
cases)

And the "-M" flag obviously means the difference between:

 drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug.h          |  236 ----------------------
 include/linux/pci_hotplug.h                |  236 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/pci_hotplug.h

and

 .../pci/hotplug => include/linux}/pci_hotplug.h    |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 rename drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug.h => include/linux/pci_hotplug.h (99%)

where the latter version clearly tells you a whole lot more about the 
patch than the non-renaming one.

The reason rename detection isn't on by default is that non-git tools 
don't understand the rename diffs. But if anybody sends me patches, please 
feel free to use "git diff -M" to make them smaller and more readable in 
the face of renames.

		Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/