Hello Matthew,
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Gabeler-Lee <chee...@fastcat.org> wrote:
> Diffstat tries to get the terminal width to auto-scale the histogram, but
> the method it uses simply doesn't work, at least with bash.
>
> The method it uses is getenv("COLUMNS"). Unfortunately, at least with bash,
> the COLUMNS variable is normally a "magic" variable, it doesn't really exist
> in the environment, and so diffstat always thinks the terminal is 80 chars
> wide, which often results in forcing the histogram to only be its minimum 10
> chars wide, no matter how big the terminal window is.
By default, diffstat doesn't try to identify the terminal width at
all, but uses a default 80 chars columns width value. It was a recent
patch[1] that introduces the behaviour of checking COLUMNS (else you'd
have to use -w NUM). So the current situation might be better than the
static columns width in same cases, so can you elaborate a bit more
what you want from this bug report (I would close it actually)? :)
[1]
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/diffstat/1.55-3/01-check-columns-env-var.patch
Cheers,
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