Re: [PATCH] git status -q (similar to subversion)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 30, 2009, 05:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20090630053304.GB29643@sigio.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090628210117.GA7821@old.homeip.net>

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:01:17PM +0200, Martin Renold wrote:

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> As a former svn user I also miss -q.  I like to keep untracked non-ignored
> files lying around as a short-term TODO list.
> 
> I think the point is not SVN compatibility.  The point is that SVN just got
> the commandline interface right here ;-) because -q easier to discover and
> remember (many programs have --quiet/-q).  And when you use it you will use
> it several times in a row.  For this -uno is already too much to bother
> typing (assuming you have an alias 'git st').

If it is convenience you want, perhaps you would be even happier with:

  git config status.showUntrackedFiles no

As far as "SVN got it right": that may well be the case, but we have to deal with the fact that "git status" is really a dry-run version of "git commit", which already has a "-q" option, which does something totally different. So I am a little hesitant to endorse its use in "git status" for something unrelated (and I am hesitant to have redundant command line options, as well).

-Peff