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

[Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> The name "--diff-only" does not sound right, as people would wonder
> what should happen when you give "--status --diff-only".
>
> Perhaps you would need to do some careful thinking, similar to what
> we did when deciding the "diff" and "log" options.
>
> We originally had "--patch" and then "--patch-with-stat" to "diff"
> and "log", but soon after that people found that "show only stat
> without the patch text" is a useful thing to do.  We retrofitted the
> command line parser to take "--patch" and "--stat" as orthogonal but
> inter-related options, which was a successful conversion that did
> not break backward compatibility (These days people would not even
> know that these strangely combined forms "--patch-with-stat" and
> "--patch-with-raw" even exist).
>
> All of the above assumes that showing only the patch and not other
> hints to help situation awareness while making a commit is a useful
> thing in the first place.  I am undecided on that point myself.

Hmm, perhaps such functionality should be off-loaded to a third-party
wrapper. (I'd not be surprised if most wrappers already have this.)

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan