The --stat of a combined diff is defined as the first-parent stat,
going all the way back to 965f803c32 (combine-diff: show diffstat with
the first parent., 2006-04-17).
Naturally, we gave --numstat the same treatment in 74e2abe5b7 (diff
--numstat, 2006-10-12).
But --shortstat, which is really just the final line of --stat, does
nothing, which produces confusing results:
$ git show --oneline --stat eab7584e37eab7584e37 Merge branch 'en/show-ref-doc-fix'
Documentation/git-show-ref.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
$ git show --oneline --shortstat eab7584e37eab7584e37 Merge branch 'en/show-ref-doc-fix'
[nothing! We'd expect to see the "1 file changed..." line]
This patch teaches combine-diff to treats the two formats identically.
Reported-by: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King