Re: Diff --stat for files that differ only in whitespace

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Matt Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:41 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>
>> This seemed familiar, so I dug up some prior discussion here:
>>
>>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/1484704915.2096.16.camel@mattmccutchen.net/
>>
>> We didn't come to a resolution there, but there is a patch to play with,
>> and I think nobody was opposed to the notion that with the right
>> code change we could be suppressing these whitespace-only stat lines
>>
>> -Peff
>
>
> I think for now I'm going to feed --numstat into a script like Junio suggested.
> Out of curiosity what would it take to get that patch into git? Is it just a
> matter of someone just verifying it and submitting it?

After re-reading the thread, I think it takes a bit more than just
re-reading and testing, because even the author of the patch said
(and I think I still agree with the assessment) that the patch does
one thing that is not exactly what we want it to do.  So we'd need
to tweak it more to do what we want to do, I would suspect.