Re: [PATCH] Add commit.status, --status, and --no-status

[James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009, James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us> wrote:
> This commit provides support for commit.status, --status, and
> --no-status, which control whether or not the git status information
> is included in the commit message template when using an editor to
> prepare the commit message.  It does not affect the effects of a
> user's commit.template settings.

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I have to register an objection
to this _as a config option_, for the same reasons that I objected to the
'grep --full-tree' config option [1].  Both options fundamentally change
user visible behavior, both options IMHO will be used by a small minority
of git users, and in both cases, the desired behavior can be attained using
aliases in combination with a new command line option.

Sorry if I'm obstructing progress, but I think that, for the good of the
Git community as a whole, it's best to keep the number of config options
(and to a lesser extent, command line options) as low as possible.

Note that I do not object to adding --no-status as a command line option.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133681

James