Hi Junio, On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > When running git-commit`, --verbose appends a diff to the prepared > > message, while --no-status omits git-status output. > > The --verbose option is called --verbose and not --diff or --patch > for a reason, though. The default is to show extra information as > comments, and verbose tells us to make that extra information more > verbose. We call that extra information "status", so it is natural > for "--no-status" to drop that extra information. Thanks for the explanation. Now I can appreciate why git-commit works this way. 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. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- 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