Package: diffstat
Version: 1.55-3
Severity: normal
Diffstat tries to get the terminal width to auto-scale the histogram, but
the method it uses simply doesn't work, at least with bash.
The method it uses is getenv("COLUMNS"). Unfortunately, at least with bash,
the COLUMNS variable is normally a "magic" variable, it doesn't really exist
in the environment, and so diffstat always thinks the terminal is 80 chars
wide, which often results in forcing the histogram to only be its minimum 10
chars wide, no matter how big the terminal window is.
Workaround: export COLUMNS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages diffstat depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-37
diffstat recommends no packages.
diffstat suggests no packages.
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