Tay Ray Chuan <rcta...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
The name "--diff-only" does not sound right, as people would wonder what should happen when you give "--status --diff-only". Perhaps you would need to do some careful thinking, similar to what we did when deciding the "diff" and "log" options. We originally had "--patch" and then "--patch-with-stat" to "diff" and "log", but soon after that people found that "show only stat without the patch text" is a useful thing to do. We retrofitted the command line parser to take "--patch" and "--stat" as orthogonal but inter-related options, which was a successful conversion that did not break backward compatibility (These days people would not even know that these strangely combined forms "--patch-with-stat" and "--patch-with-raw" even exist). All of the above assumes that showing only the patch and not other hints to help situation awareness while making a commit is a useful thing in the first place. I am undecided on that point myself. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
