On 30/10/2008, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no git-diffstat or darcs-diffstat or svn-diffstat, but > there is diffstat in patchutils. True to the Unix-spirit, it plugs > in to all of these tools thanks to pipes. Is there a reason why bzr > needs to have its own solution? Wouldn't it be enough to define an > alias 'diffstat' that just does 'diff|diffstat'?
This is mainly an ease of use/usability thing. Ubuntu is trying to move to using bzr (and only bzr) for managing packages. Part of our freeze exception process requires a diffstat of the patch, so the idea was to make creating diffstats from bzr branches as easy (and as integrated) as possible. The plan upstream is also to "extend" the functionality of a diffstat (sounds silly I know), for example adding colouring (Small changes would be green, bigger changes would be red). Things like that would greatly help the Ubuntu release team make decisions much quicker. If you do not think this is a good enough rationale, then I will be glad to look at packaging more software and look forward to working with Debian again. -- David Futcher (bobbo) Ubuntu Universe Contributor http://www.bobbo.me.uk http://www.launchpad.net/~bobbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
