"git request-pull" and confusing diffstats

Posted Oct 26, 2019 7:57 UTC (Sat) by kccqzy (guest, #121854)
Parent article: "git request-pull" and confusing diffstats

It should be noted that this kind of situation has been known since a very long time and some commercial Git hosting providers do exactly the same dance to show a good diff, namely perform a merge and show that diff. See for example here.

I got used to seeing this kind of diff very quickly. If git request-pull could automate this it would be great. However I do think this is easier in a centralized environment where every change to the mainline can automatically cause the pull request diff to be recompiled.