{"thread":{"id":"32053","subject":"git-status: Use \"-sb\" options by default?","startedAt":"2012-11-10T11:04:17Z","lastAt":"2012-11-11T10:50:14Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jason Timrod","Ramkumar Ramachandra"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"202748","messageId":"1352545457.32390.YahooMailNeo@web160304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com","threadId":"32053","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-status: Use \"-sb\" options by default?","fromName":"Jason Timrod","fromEmail":"jtimrod@yahoo.com","sentAt":"2012-11-10T11:04:17Z","receivedAt":"2012-11-10T11:04:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jtimrod@yahoo.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nI've been rooting around the \"git-config\" man page as well as the \"git-status\" man page, but couldn't find the following, which suggests it's not (yet) possible.\n\nI'm looking for a way to make the \"-sb\" options to git-status the default somehow.  That is, I would like the short form of git-status to be the default when typing in \"git status\".  I appreciate I am able to do this in an indirect way using aliases, but this is slightly suboptimal for me.\n\nIf this isn't possible directly, would someone mind considering this a feature request?\n\nOut of interest, would this be done via the git-config system, most likely?\n\nThanks kindly,\n\nJason\n"},{"id":"202812","messageId":"CALkWK0mjbZtvMrCnf1Du1aTiPPq10wmiTJAf=AW8ECwPiYzBwQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"32053","inReplyTo":"1352545457.32390.YahooMailNeo@web160304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com","subject":"Re: git-status: Use \"-sb\" options by default?","fromName":"Ramkumar Ramachandra","fromEmail":"artagnon@gmail.com","sentAt":"2012-11-11T10:50:14Z","receivedAt":"2012-11-11T10:50:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"r@artagnon.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37226?v=4"},"body":"Jason Timrod wrote:\n> I'm looking for a way to make the \"-sb\" options to git-status the default somehow.\n\nI've aliased `git status` to `git status -sb` too, and I think it's a\nvery sensible default; who wants to see\n\n  # Changes not staged for commit:\n  #   (use \"git add <file>...\" to update what will be committed)\n  #   (use \"git checkout -- <file>...\" to discard changes in working directory)\n\nover and over again?\n\nMaybe a status.shortWithBranch is in order?  However, I don't know if\nwe can have one configuration option that turns on both `-s` and `-b`.\n\nRam\n"}]}