Re: [PATCH v2] diff: add --compact-summary option to complement --stat

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:05:46PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> This is partly inspired by gerrit web interface which shows diffstat
> like this, e.g. with commit 0433d533f1 (notice the "A" column on the
> third line):
> 
>      Documentation/merge-config.txt     |  4 +
>      builtin/merge.c                    |  2 +
>    A t/t5573-pull-verify-signatures.sh  | 81 ++++++++++++++++++
>      t/t7612-merge-verify-signatures.sh | 45 ++++++++++
>    4 files changed, 132 insertions(+)

I like the general concept. Perusing "git log" output, though, it felt
like the summary column was very close to the filenames. What do you
think of putting it after the "|", where it is only close to a number?

Something like the patch below (on top of yours, but it probably needs
tweaked further for graph_width), which gives:

   t/t5573-pull-verify-signatures.sh | A+x  78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

(I know this is a bikeshed, so I'm perfectly willing to take "yuck, I
don't like that as well" as a response).

> The new option --compact-summary implements this with a tweak to support
> mode change, which is shown in --summary too.

One thing I noticed is that --compact-summary by itself does nothing.
Should it imply --stat?

-Peff