Am 18.07.23 um 22:49 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > 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. The negated variants don't imply --dry-run and do actually commit something. Which kinda makes sense. René