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

Some people often run 'git status -b'.
The config variable status.branch 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

@@ -2070,6 +2070,10 @@ 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.branch::
+	Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
+	The option --no-branch 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

@@ -1117,6 +1117,10 @@ static int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
 			status_format = STATUS_FORMAT_NONE;
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(k, "status.branch")) {
+		s->show_branch = git_config_bool(k, v);
+		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

@@ -1361,6 +1361,33 @@ test_expect_success '"status.short=false" weaker than "-s"' '
 	test_cmp expected_short actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success '"status.branch=true" same as "-b"' '
+	git status -sb >expected_branch &&
+	git -c status.branch=true status -s >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_branch actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.branch=true" different from "--no-branch"' '
+	git status -s --no-branch  >expected_nobranch &&
+	git -c status.branch=true status -s >actual &&
+	test_must_fail test_cmp expected_nobranch actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.branch=true" weaker than "--no-branch"' '
+	git -c status.branch=true status -s --no-branch >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_nobranch actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.branch=false" same as "--no-branch"' '
+	git -c status.branch=false status -s >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_nobranch actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"status.branch=false" weaker than "-b"' '
+	git -c status.branch=false status -sb >actual &&
+	test_cmp expected_branch actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'Restore default test environment' '
 	git config --unset status.showUntrackedFiles
 '