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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Matt Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Diff --stat for files that differ only in whitespace
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Matt Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com> writes:

> some-file.txt | 0
>
> This is easy enough to parse through when it's a small number of files but when
> there is ~1000 files with only maybe 1500 insertions/deletions showing it's not
> really useful to me to see a list of those 1000 files, if there was a way to
> sort by number of insertion/deletions or filter out the files that had 0
> effective changes that would solve my problem.

Whether you are interested in whitespace or not, if you are
processing the diff output with scripts, --numstat (not --stat)
may be simpler to work with.