[Gitstat-devel] GitStat- does diffmanager tab have problems with large changesets?

[Julian R. <jul...@gm...>]

Hi there-
hope you developers don't mind a (potential) end-users question:
just discovered gitstat, and am really interested in the diff
viewing/reporting feature.

I do QA on code releases, and am looking for a tool that will highlight
what's changed at a directory/file level, and then let me see the individual
changes.  GitStat is the first tool I've found that shows differences at the
file hierarchy level.  I'm thinking I could create a git repo, and check in
each release, so that I can use gitstat.  There are likely to be large
changes between checkins.

Everything looks good until (using
http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/diff-index.php as a reference) I
choose two points that would have a big delta- e.g. two releases of the
linux kernel (e.g. v2.6.27 to v2.6.26)- then I get nothing.

If I try to compare to rc's, it looks pretty good.
Arg, think I just found a bug- if a directory has a single file change, you
get the diff but not the filename itself.  If a directory has multiple files
with changes, you get the filenames, which you can then click on to see the
diff.

Are these bugs?

Is this an abuse of gitstat? :-) If so, can anyone suggest an alternate
tool?

Thanks in advance,

Julian