[MERGE][Bug #115990] status should handle the -q (quiet) option like svn

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:

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> I strongly agree with John that --quiet should just do the test and return a
> varying status code.  I don't think consistency with svn is a good enough
> reason to accept it; being an easy transition from svn is important but
> not the only thing.
> 
> It's probably a bug that --quiet is specially handled rather than being
> just a common option like --verbose.  We should just move that separately.
> 
> I would rather add short names for --versioned and --short, and teach
> people to do 'bzr st -SV' or something similar.
> 

I think --svn is a reasonable approximation for that.

I think the bug makes it clear that we would like to do something about it. So
I would probably approve a '--svn' flag.

John
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