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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git 2.26] stat counts reported by commit and log are different
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:12:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409231253.GA4180345@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8sj4mfq5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 03:55:30PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > It might make sense to do so (and/or to make it possible to enable it by
> > config like we did for years with diff.renames). But it definitely is
> > way more expensive.
> > ...
> > So not quite as bad percentage-wise, but still pretty expensive. And for
> > not a huge benefit. There are ~261 impacted commits. You can see a
> > recent example with:
> >
> >   git show -B -M --stat --summary ce6521e44
> >
> > where we find that most of builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c was moved to
> > fmt-merge-msg.c. It's nice, but it's expensive enough that it probably
> > shouldn't be the default.
> 
> Not only that, it can cost correctness-wise.  Until this
> 
>   https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqegqaahnh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com/
> 
> gets corrected, it is not advisable to enable -B and -M at the same
> time.

Ah, I forgot about that. I think the resulting diff might still be
useful for a human to read, but yeah, it cannot be applied (though even
there, it would be nice for it to make a little more clear to humans
what's happening with the destination file).

I wonder if we ought to remove -B from its use in status/commit, but I
guess there we are never generating a diff to apply, but rather one to
help humans understand what happened.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09  2:04 [git 2.26] stat counts reported by commit and log are different Norbert Kiesel
2020-04-09 13:59 ` Jeff King
2020-04-09 21:58   ` Norbert Kiesel
2020-04-09 22:47     ` Jeff King
2020-04-09 22:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-09 23:12         ` Jeff King [this message]

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