diff: teach --stat to ignore uninteresting modifications

Sometimes when diffing, files may show as being momdified even when
there are no interesting diffs to show.  This happens naturally when
using options such as --ignore-space-change.  We don't want to prevent
the display  of all files that have 0 effective diffs since they could
be the result of a rename, permission change, or other similar operation
that may still be of interest so we special case additions and deletions
as they are always interesting.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>

Author: ROGERSM94

diff.c

@@ -3153,16 +3153,19 @@ static void show_dirstat_by_line(struct diffstat_t *data, struct diff_options *o
 	gather_dirstat(options, &dir, changed, "", 0);
 }
 
+static void free_diffstat_file(struct diffstat_file *f)
+{
+	free(f->print_name);
+	free(f->name);
+	free(f->from_name);
+	free(f);
+}
+
 void free_diffstat_info(struct diffstat_t *diffstat)
 {
 	int i;
-	for (i = 0; i < diffstat->nr; i++) {
-		struct diffstat_file *f = diffstat->files[i];
-		free(f->print_name);
-		free(f->name);
-		free(f->from_name);
-		free(f);
-	}
+	for (i = 0; i < diffstat->nr; i++)
+		free_diffstat_file(diffstat->files[i]);
 	free(diffstat->files);
 }
 
@@ -3718,6 +3721,26 @@ static void builtin_diffstat(const char *name_a, const char *name_b,
 		if (xdi_diff_outf(&mf1, &mf2, discard_hunk_line,
 				  diffstat_consume, diffstat, &xpp, &xecfg))
 			die("unable to generate diffstat for %s", one->path);
+
+		if (DIFF_FILE_VALID(one) && DIFF_FILE_VALID(two)) {
+			struct diffstat_file *file = 
+				diffstat->files[diffstat->nr - 1];
+			/*
+			 * Omit diffstats of modified files where nothing changed. 
+			 * Even if !same_contents, this might be the case due to
+			 * ignoring whitespace changes, etc.
+			 * 
+			 * But note that we special-case additions and deletions,
+			 * as adding an empty file, for example is still of interest.
+			 */
+			if ((p->status == DIFF_STATUS_MODIFIED) 
+				&& !file->added
+				&& !file->deleted
+				&& one->mode == two->mode) {
+				free_diffstat_file(file);
+				diffstat->nr--;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	diff_free_filespec_data(one);

t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh

@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkdiff allows new blank lines' '
 	git diff --check
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported' '
+test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported (diff)' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	echo >x "hello world" &&
 	git add x &&
@@ -799,10 +799,44 @@ test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported' '
 	test_must_be_empty actual
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames' '
+test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported (diffstat)' '
+	# reuse state from previous test
+	git diff --stat -b >actual &&
+	test_must_be_empty actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'whitespace changes with modification reported (diffstat)' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	echo >x "hello  world" &&
+	git update-index --chmod=+x x &&
+	git diff --stat --cached -b >actual &&
+	cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+	 x | 0
+	 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames (diffstat)' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo "$i$i$i$i$i$i"; done >x &&
 	git add x &&
+	git commit -m "base" &&
+	sed -e "5s/^/ /" x >z &&
+	git rm x &&
+	git add z &&
+	git diff -w -M --cached --stat >actual &&
+	cat <<-EOF >expect &&
+	 x => z | 0
+	 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames' '
+	git reset --hard HEAD~1 &&
+	for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo "$i$i$i$i$i$i"; done >x &&
+	git add x &&
 	hash_x=$(git hash-object x) &&
 	before=$(git rev-parse --short "$hash_x") &&
 	git commit -m "base" &&