Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:15:41 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Would it be better for git-commits-head to have -M -C diffs? |
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:56:18 -0400 James Cloos wrote:
> Would anyone else prefer to see the posts on the commits list use git's > copy and move detection? > > Git show (used by the feed-mail-list script) does support -M and -C. > > It does affect the stat section. The recent commit 758db3f21187 would > have had its stat changed from looking like: > > arch/h8300/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 + > arch/h8300/include/asm/a.out.h | 20 ++ > arch/h8300/include/asm/atomic.h | 144 +++++++++++ > . > . > . > include/asm-h8300/Kbuild | 1 - > include/asm-h8300/a.out.h | 20 -- > include/asm-h8300/atomic.h | 144 ----------- > . > . > . > > to looking like: > > .../asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/Kbuild | 0 > .../asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/a.out.h | 0 > .../asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/atomic.h | 0 > .../asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/auxvec.h | 0 > .../asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/bitops.h | 0 > .../h8300/include/asm}/bootinfo.h | 0 > . > . > . > > but would have been 512 lines and 24271 octets instead of 10623 lines > and 291634 octets. > > I think it would also be useful were the From: header of each message > set to the commit's Author. I run each commit through a script to do > that locally, but the archives would also benefit from that.
or the git-commits list could use what Linus has requested to be used in pull requests:
Please use "git diff -M --stat --summary" to generate the diffstat: the -M enables rename detection, and the summary enables a summary of new/deleted or renamed files.
--- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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