Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] make commit --verbose work with --no-status

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:39:45 -0700

Tay Ray Chuan <[email-masked]> writes:

> When running git-commit`, --verbose appends a diff to the prepared
> message, while --no-status omits git-status output.

The --verbose option is called --verbose and not --diff or --patch
for a reason, though.  The default is to show extra information as
comments, and verbose tells us to make that extra information more
verbose.  We call that extra information "status", so it is natural
for "--no-status" to drop that extra information.

> ; thus, one would
> expect --verbose --no-status to give a commit message with a diff of
> the commit without git-status output.
>
> However, this is not what happens

And for a good reason, I would think.