From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 16:01:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 0/7] config commit verbose Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160509142825.GB9552@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > I guess I do not really consider the template content to be the primary > thing the command is doing. It is subjective, though. I don't feel > strongly enough to keep discussing it if other people don't agree. I just see the primary thing of what "commit -e" does is to help users edit their log message (and view "-v" as giving more helping), but I do agree with you that this is very subjective. If we had these as either in broken-down form ("--show-diff", "--show-diffstat", and "--show-untracked") or just a single "--show-extra-info" option when we did the feature in the very beginning, I do not think I'd feel that "--show-*" option(s) should be renamed/redone to "--verbose". So personally, my subjective judgment is "'--verbose' and '--show-diff' would have been equally valid, and it is OK to let whichever came first squat on the feature."