[MERGE] Improved commit reporting

[Andrew Bennetts]

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
[...]
> 
> Aaron indicated on IRC that he was concerned about special casing the
> initial commit for UI consistency reasons. The "commit less verbose"
> patch was consistent so we can roll back to that (say) if this is not
> liked. On the whole, I think this is better though. Seeing 100s of
> "added xxx" messages during an initial commit has never felt that useful
> to me.

I share this concern a little.  Not all initial commits involved hundreds or
thousands of files.  If I'm just starting a new project there's probably only a
small handful of files, and I'd probably prefer to see them in the commit
output.

I don't have a strong feeling either way, but I'm inclined slightly more towards
“use -q if you want quiet output”, rather than special-casing initial commit.

-Andrew.