| 33 | Generating Statistics About Changes |
The individual commit’s changes are important, but viewing those changes in aggregate through statistics can provide you with a unique view of the project. Git helps you do that through the various statistical outputs it generates.
Git’s git diff --stat is the most
straightforward of the displays. It takes one or two
commits—remember, git diff assumes
HEAD as its second commit if you don’t
specify it—and displays stats regarding the changes rather than
displaying the diff output. It includes file-by-file changes in
addition to the summary statistics. Git uses the
diffstat command for this, so the output
may look familiar if you’re used to that program.
Sometimes all you need is the final line of ...