Re: [Possible bug] diff-tree --stat info does not count copies

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2006-08-17 19:40:08
"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

> While testing qgit with the new rename/copy support  I found this
> (possible) bug playing on git tree.
>
> $ git-diff-tree -r --stat 6973dca
> 6973dcaee76ef7b7bfcabd2f26e76205aae07858
>  Makefile                      |    2
> diff-files.c                  |  212 +----
> diff-lib.c                    | 1862 ++---------------------------------------
> diff.c                        | 1795 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> diff.h                        |    7
> t/t1001-read-tree-m-2way.sh   |    2
> t/t1002-read-tree-m-u-2way.sh |    2
> 7 files changed, 1929 insertions(+), 1953 deletions(-)
>
> $ git-diff-tree -r --stat -C 6973dca
> 6973dcaee76ef7b7bfcabd2f26e76205aae07858
>  Makefile                      |    2
> diff-files.c                  |  212 +----
> diff-lib.c                    | 1862 ++---------------------------------------
> diff-lib.c => diff.c          |    0
> diff.h                        |    7
> t/t1001-read-tree-m-2way.sh   |    2
> t/t1002-read-tree-m-u-2way.sh |    2
> 7 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1953 deletions(-)
>
> IMHO the bug is
>
>   "diff-lib.c => diff.c          |    0"
>
> instead of
>
>   "diff-lib.c => diff.c          |    1795"
>
> because, after the patch applied, in the repository we have
> 1953-1929=24 lines of code more, not 1953-134= 1819 less.

Interesting.  That's really a matter of taste and interpretation.

If it were a straight rename without changing a single line,
then would you say 1795 lines were removed (from the LHS file)
and 1795 lines were added (to the RHS file)?

I personally find that output would be useless and would prefer
it to say "I renamed file A to file B.  Content-wise, there were
N lines added and M lines removed, compared to the straight
rename case, by the way".

And that is what the current output does.  I do not see why it
should be different in the case of a copy instead of a rename.


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Received on Thu Aug 17 19:40:48 2006

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