This patch allows users to use the short form -q on log and format-patch, which was non possible before. Also the documentation of format-patch mentions -q now. The documentation of log doesn't even talk about --quiet, so I'll leave that for more experienced git contributors. ;) It doesn't seem to change the default behavior, but in combination with --stat for example it suppresses the actual stats. however the only relevant code in log is if (quiet) rev->diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT; Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 1 + builtin/log.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index e394276..9e0ef0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow). Note that the leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`. +-q:: --quiet:: Do not print the names of the generated files to standard output. diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c index 1dafbd0..ed4dec4 100644 --- a/builtin/log.c +++ b/builtin/log.c @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static void cmd_log_init_finish(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, static struct line_opt_callback_data line_cb = {NULL, NULL, STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP}; const struct option builtin_log_options[] = { - OPT_BOOL(0, "quiet", &quiet, N_("suppress diff output")), + OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("suppress diff output")), OPT_BOOL(0, "source", &source, N_("show source")), OPT_BOOL(0, "use-mailmap", &mailmap, N_("Use mail map file")), { OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "decorate", NULL, NULL, N_("decorate options"), @@ -1210,8 +1210,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, thread_callback }, OPT_STRING(0, "signature", &signature, N_("signature"), N_("add a signature")), - OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "quiet", &quiet, - N_("don't print the patch filenames")), + OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("don't print the patch filenames")), OPT_END() }; -- 1.8.4.rc0.16.g7fca822.dirty -- 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