Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make commit --verbose work with --no-status

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2015, 12:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CALUzUxqeadRii1o0-yo=QaZCqoAzGk+aVq=y1-11dJvK=em0qw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd21buxla.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
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> > When running git-commit`, --verbose appends a diff to the prepared
> > message, while --no-status omits git-status output.
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> The --verbose option is called --verbose and not --diff or --patch
> for a reason, though.  The default is to show extra information as
> comments, and verbose tells us to make that extra information more
> verbose.  We call that extra information "status", so it is natural
> for "--no-status" to drop that extra information.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I can appreciate why git-commit works this way.

Would it be a good idea to have a --diff-only option to include diff, but not status output? Or perhaps a --diff option, while leaving it to the user to specify if status output is to be included with --no-status, which would open the doors for mixing and matching status formatting control, eg. with --short.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan