[issue289] mq should create & maintain diffstats in patches

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:40:40PM +0000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> New submission from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org>:
> 
> mq should add diffstats to patches, and update any diffstat in the comment block
> of a patch.  I'm not sure if there's a sure-fire way to identify an existing
> diffstat in a patch, but maybe relying on some simple convention would be enough.

I don't know how worthwhile this is. I've personally found them to be
a nuisance when revising or committing patches from third parties. The
information is already implicit in the patch and most folks can
retrieve it with "|diffstat" or equivalent.

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