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Git Log - --numstat With a Binary Row

Machine-readable insertion and deletion counts per file. Two rows break naive arithmetic: the binary file reports `-` in both numeric columns rather than 0, and the rename path is brace-compressed into `docs/{README.md => guide.md}` rather than written out twice.

Preview — first 22 lineslog
b06c629 feat(rounding)!: round half to even instead of half up
24	6	internal/ledger/rounding.go

232f149 fix(format): reject amounts with no digits
5	1	web/src/format.ts

e178e16 chore: the quarterly tidy-up
17	0	internal/ledger/rounding.go
0	6	scripts/legacy-import.sh
0	0	docs/{README.md => guide.md}
1	0	scripts/release.sh
-	-	assets/badge.png

337d122 docs: rename README to guide
0	0	docs/{README.md => guide.md}

4cea2b8 feat(ledger): add banker's rounding helper
17	0	internal/ledger/rounding.go

437e21e feat(ledger): treat a zero delta as a no-op
9	2	internal/ledger/apply.go

Specifications

Seed
20260807
Command
git log --oneline --numstat -6
Commits
6
Binary Row Marker
- -
Brace Compressed Renames
true
Field Separator
TAB
Line Endings
LF
Encoding
UTF-8

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Total the insertions and deletions across a --numstat log that includes a binary file and a rename.
Expected result
The binary row is skipped rather than parsed as zero or crashing on int('-'), and the brace-compressed rename path is expanded back to docs/README.md and docs/guide.md.

What is a .log file?

LOG files are plain-text records of events emitted by software, typically one entry per line with a timestamp, severity, and message. There is no single standard, so formats range from unstructured text to structured JSON lines. They are central to debugging, monitoring, and auditing.

How to use this file

Use an example LOG file to test log parsers, timestamp and severity extraction, line-oriented streaming, and ingestion into monitoring or analysis pipelines.

How to use this file for testing

“Git Log - --numstat With a Binary Row” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Log parsing, Visual diff / regression, Data engineering. Access logs and JSON-lines application logs — for testing log parsers, tailers, and ingestion pipelines.

Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807 · UTF-8 · LF. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Diff and patch fixtures name their target paths and the exact edge case they exercise — rename, mode change, binary hunk, CRLF↔LF, or missing trailing newline. Apply or render them against the documented before-state; every author, path, and hash is fictional.

Code examples

grep -i error git-log-numstat.log | head
awk '{print $1, $2, $NF}' git-log-numstat.log | head

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