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

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6e53fc507489fb2add3184998b8ec2a43e84b249..1983bf7427fc4b68244978a94525a3e23259b7f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/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