From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:32:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-tree: do not show the sha1 of the given head with --quiet
Message-ID: <xmqqmvyoq6gh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <0000014eb518dc87-a69705c4-31e7-4983-99a8-f780a743aeac-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> "--quite" is documented to "Disable all output of the program". Yet
> calling diff-tree with a single commit like
>
> $ git diff-tree --quiet c925fe2
>
> was logging
>
> c925fe23684455735c3bb1903803643a24a58d8f

At this point, unfortunately I think we need to call that a
documentation bug.  The "output" it refers to is output from the
"diff" portion, not the "poor-man's log" portion, of the program,
where diff-tree was the workhorse behind scripted "git log" that
gave the commit object name as the preamble for each commit it
shows information about.