status: introduce status.short to enable --short by default

Some people always run 'git status -s'.
The configuration variable status.short allows to set it by default.
Signed-off-by: NJorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: NMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: NMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -2066,6 +2066,10 @@ status.relativePaths::
 	relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
 	prior to v1.5.4).
 
+status.short::
+	Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
+	The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
+
 status.showUntrackedFiles::
 	By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
 	files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which

builtin/commit.c

@@ -1110,6 +1110,13 @@ static int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
 			s->submodule_summary = -1;
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(k, "status.short")) {
+		if (git_config_bool(k, v))
+			status_format = STATUS_FORMAT_SHORT;
+		else
+			status_format = STATUS_FORMAT_NONE;
+		return 0;
+	}
 	if (!strcmp(k, "status.color") || !strcmp(k, "color.status")) {
 		s->use_color = git_config_colorbool(k, v);
 		return 0;

t/t7508-status.sh

@@ -1335,4 +1335,34 @@ test_expect_failure '.git/config ignore=all suppresses submodule summary' '
 	git config -f .gitmodules  --remove-section submodule.subname
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'setup of test environment' '
+	git config status.showUntrackedFiles no &&
+	git status -s >expected_short &&
+	git status --no-short >expected_noshort
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.short=true" same as "-s"' '
+	git -c status.short=true status >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_short actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.short=true" weaker than "--no-short"' '
+	git -c status.short=true status --no-short >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_noshort actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.short=false" same as "--no-short"' '
+	git -c status.short=false status >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_noshort actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.short=false" weaker than "-s"' '
+	git -c status.short=false status -s >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_short actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Restore default test environment' '
+	git config --unset status.showUntrackedFiles
+'
+
 test_done