message: Simplifying the test on line changes
diff: @@ -54,11 +54,9 @@ while read -r rev; do
  echo "Processing commit ${rev}"
  git checkout -q "${rev}"
  - # Compute the approximate number of total changes (# files + insertions +
  - # deletions) in the commit, e.g
  - # "3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)"
  - # --(sed)--> 3,66,45 --(sed)--> 3+66+45 --(bc)--> 114
  - changes=$(git diff --shortstat HEAD^ | sed -e 's/[^0-9,]//g' -e 's/,/+/g' | bc)
  + # Compute the total number of changes (line insertions + line deletions) in
  + # the commit.
  + changes=$(git show --pretty="" --numstat | awk '{change+=$1+$2} END {print change}')
  # If the above is more than 50K, print an error
  if [ ${changes} -gt 50000 ]
  