From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cgit at cryptocrack.de (Lukas Fleischer)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:10:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Add "stat only" diff mode
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 at 05:01:41, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Curious to know the motivation behind this patchset. Why would you want
> stat-only?
> [...]

To avoid loading the whole diff when you're only interested in changes
to a single file [1].

[1] http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2014-September/002235.html