Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-tree: do not show the sha1 of the given head with --quiet

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:32:14 -0700

Sebastian Schuberth <[email-masked]> writes:

> "--quite" is documented to "Disable all output of the program". Yet
> calling diff-tree with a single commit like
>
> $ git diff-tree --quiet c925fe2
>
> was logging
>
> c925fe23684455735c3bb1903803643a24a58d8f

At this point, unfortunately I think we need to call that a
documentation bug.  The "output" it refers to is output from the
"diff" portion, not the "poor-man's log" portion, of the program,
where diff-tree was the workhorse behind scripted "git log" that
gave the commit object name as the preamble for each commit it
shows information about.