On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:15:18PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > I'd like to sort the output of `git diff --stat` such that files are > listed in descending order based on number of lines changed. The > closest solution I've found online[1] has several readability issues. > I'd rather see a built-in solution in git, if one exists. Can anyone > recommend a solution?
Hmm, I feel like another person asked for this recently, but I can't seem to find the thread. Anyway, no, I don't think there's a solution short of parsing the output (you could parse --numstat, which is at least sane, but then you'd have to generate your own visual diffstat, which has a lot of corner cases). We have --orderfile, but that's about a static order based on filename. It seems reasonable to me for "--stat" to learn an option to sort (that would not affect, say, the total diff order, since sorting by line count makes very little sense for most other formats). -Peff
