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For those of us on a Mac which installed Homebrew. Just install it via brew install diffstat.

Jens Kohl
– Jens Kohl

2015-04-15 11:54:29 +00:00
Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 11:54
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To get the name of the file printed, you need the diff to be unified diff -u foo1/bar.cpp foo2/bar.cpp | diffstat will yell bar.cpp | 6 ++++++. If not unified, the file name will be unknown.

Vser
– Vser

2019-09-20 13:54:00 +00:00
Commented Sep 20, 2019 at 13:54

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