Re: git status -s -v: no override

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:34:55PM +0100, Jacek Masiulaniec wrote:

Small git-status argument processing issue:

[jacekm@localhost test]$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/test/.git/
[jacekm@localhost test]$ git status -v
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
[jacekm@localhost test]$ git status -s
[jacekm@localhost test]$ git status -v -s
[jacekm@localhost test]$ git status -s -v
[jacekm@localhost test]$

Things look consistent until the last command: -v does not override -s,
which is unexpected given that -s does override -v.

Sort of. I think you are expecting "-v" to mean "use the long output
format", but it doesn't. Instead, "-v" actually indicates that we should
show a diff along with the usual output (in your case, the diff is
empty).

There is no option that means "counteract -s or --porcelain seen earlier
on the command line and use the default long format", which I think is
what you want.

-Peff