Adding Thomas, the upstream author of diffstat Hey Thomas, what's your take on this report?
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 06:33:39PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> If the diff contains files with very large diffs, diffstat's automatic >> scaling can cause files with small diffs to display zero '-' or '+' >> characters. This hides key information from the diffstat, namely >> the direction of the diff. diffstat should always display at least one >> '-' for a file with lines removed, and at least one '+' for a file with >> lines added, regardless of scaling. > > Steps to reproduce: > > /tmp$ mkdir foo > /tmp$ cd foo/ > /tmp/foo$ mkdir 1 > /tmp/foo$ mkdir 2 > /tmp/foo$ echo one-line > 2/only-in-2 > /tmp/foo$ echo one-line > 1/only-in-1 > /tmp/foo$ seq 1 100000 > 2/big-file > /tmp/foo$ diff -Naur 1 2 | diffstat > big-file |100000 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > only-in-1 | 1 > only-in-2 | 1 > 3 files changed, 100001 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Regards, -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi
