Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > * "git commit --[no-](short|long|porcelain)" are accepted and > behave as "git status" without doing any "git commit" thing, > which should be corrected, I think. It turns out that this was very much deliberate that these options imply "--dry-run", implemented in 7c9f7038 (commit: support alternate status formats, 2009-09-05). So there is nothing to fix here.