On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:33:05AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > If it is convenience you want, perhaps you would be even happier with: > git config status.showUntrackedFiles no No, that doesn't help in my usecase. I want to be reminded about the untracked files by default because I intend to clean them up later. > [...] but we have to deal with the fact that "git status" is really a > dry-run version of "git commit", which already has a "-q" option Good point. However I think those commands are similar only from an implementation point of view. As an user I think of them as being quite different. I would not be surprised about different meaning of options - certainly less than about "git commit -a" vs "git add -u". > So I am a little hesitant to endorse its use in "git status" for something > unrelated (and I am hesitant to have redundant command line options, as > well). Yes I understand that. I'm using a wrapper script for now, but if it was any other one-letter shortcut, I would prefer to learn that instead. bye, Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html