Why does `git rebase` not show stats?

Question

I've noticed that git pull shows a summary of changed files in the output, but git rebase (or git pull --rebase) doesn't.

This seems inconsistent to me.

I wonder what's the reason for this behaviour?

Answer 1

From the doc:

• rebase.stat

  Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default.

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git pull --rebase will pull all the changes from the server and then place your changes on top of it.

The default --stat option for merge (pull = fetch+merge) merge.stat, defualt value is true.
The default --stat option for git rebase is: rebase.stat, default to value is false.

If you manually add --stat to your git pull line, the pull script passes this option on to either git merge or git rebase (whichever one it runs). If you leave this option out, git relies on a default option.