Nicholas Guriev <guriev...@ya.ru> writes: > It allows for uniformity with the --untracked-files option. Also > the new short flag saves the number of keys to press for the > typically git-status command.
Unlike "-u', "-i" is supported by "git commit" which shares the underlying implementation, and that is the historical reason why we never had "-i" shorthand, I think. While I do understand why sometimes "-u" is useful, especially "-uno", to help those whose .gitignore is not managed as well as it should be, I am not sure why a "typical git-status" invocation would ask for "--ignored" that often to require such a short-hand.
