What do the git statistics mean?

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I probably don't know how to search for this, but can't find what the git stats that are shown when you do a git pull or a "git show --stat 947a403" (--stat is not in the manpage) It's supposed to be line ins/del but they don't really match.

 TODO | 6 +++- htdocs/main/js/ek.balcony.js | 18 +++++++--- htdocs/main/js/ek.face.js | 3 +- htdocs/main/js/ek.main.js | 2 +- htdocs/main/js/ek.tsakiseis.js | 2 +- octave/.point2tsak.m.kate-swp | Bin 66 -> 0 bytes octave/initialiseEdf-balc.m | 68 ------------------------------------ octave/initialiseEdfbalc.m | 75 ---------------------------------------- 8 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)

What are these numbers and the + and - ? Is this something like a levenshtein distance?

robrich · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15 18:25:34Z

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These show the files changed and the lines added and removed in each. In your example, 3 files changed, and in ek.face.js, one line was added, one line was removed.

answered May 15, 2012 at 18:25

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sivann Over a year ago

I updated the example. What about face ane main.js both with the same +/- but different numbers?

robrich Over a year ago

In cases where you have a whole lot of changes, it doesn't wrap the line, rather it scales the lines shorter. Thus in your case TODO has 6 changes, but shortening them to fit in 4 characters, 3/4 of them are adds, 1/4 of them are deletes.

TheCompWiz · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15 18:51:27Z

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TODO ... 3 additions 1 deletion htdocs/main/js/ek.balcony.js ... 7 additions 3 deletions htdocs/main/js/ek.face.js ... 1 addition 1 deletion

As for the number... I'm not 100% sure. It may be a line-count as to how many lines were added/deleted.

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answered May 15, 2012 at 18:24

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TheCompWiz Over a year ago

Actually... my answer was correct in that it is the quantity of "additions/deletions". It is not indicative of how many "lines" were changed... but rather how many "diff" sections needed to be applied.

sivann Over a year ago

Hmm it doesn't seem to be a version.

TheCompWiz Over a year ago

It might be a line-count... i.e. how many lines changed... but I never bothered to look too closely.

sivann · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-16 10:34:16Z

Well, the manual is here: http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/ or diffstat(1) The counts are as reported by diff. The difference between +/- and the count is just rounding.

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