This feature was not tested in the test suite, hence we'd remove it for
now. It doesn't seem to be often used anyway.
A google search for "git diff -q" (match string exactly) only returned
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11021287/git-detect-if-there-are-untracked-files-quickly
where "git diff -q" was quoted for its exit code behavior regarding files
being found or not.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbel...@googlemail.com>
Proposed-by: <Jonathan Nieder> <jrnie...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-diff-files.txt | 6 +-----
 diff-no-index.c                  | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
index 906774f..d118cfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the 
index
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]
+'git diff-files' [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show 
"Unmerged".
        diff, similar to the way 'diff-tree' shows a merge
        commit with these flags.
 
--q::
-       Remain silent even on nonexistent files
-
-
 include::diff-format.txt[]
 
 GIT
diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index 419cd78..98a9cf1 100644
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ void diff_no_index(struct rev_info *revs,
                int j;
                if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--no-index"))
                        i++;
-               else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-q"))
-                       i++;
                else if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--"))
                        i++;
                else {
-- 
1.8.2.3.10.g2733812

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