On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 05:44:20PM +1000, Mark Jamsek wrote:
> If anything, purely for the sake of less options, I'd probably lean more
> toward dropping -d (or -P because 'd' is easier to type), and showing
> the diffstat by default if -P (or -d) is specified. But that means we're
> computing the diff when the user may just want the path list, and on
> slower machines that cost may be noticeable.

I propose we declare diff -dP to be equivalent to diff -d and otherwise
leave things as they are now.

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@@ -974,10 +974,13 @@ option.
 .It Fl d
 Display diffstat of changes introduced in each commit.
 Cannot be used with the
 .Fl s
 option.
+Implies the
+.Fl P
+option (diffstat displays a list of changed paths).
 .It Fl l Ar N
 Limit history traversal to a given number of commits.
 If this option is not specified, a default limit value of zero is used,
 which is treated as an unbounded limit.
 The