Re: Can we clarify the purpose of `git diff -s`?

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Sergey Organov [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

--patch. Thus, making --no-patch a synonym for -s was a mistake in the
first place that leaked through review process at that time, and

   git show --format="%ad" --no-patch

will still work the same way even if we fix --no-patch to disable
--patch only.

Not so fast.  I have a show.outputFormat configuration variable to

Sorry, but please insert "patch cooking" before that "to" or I'd
waste your time going through the configuration variable
documentation.