How can I make git status --short be the default

Question

I can use
git status to see a verbose listing (also git status --verbose) and
git status --short to see a short listing.

How I can I change
git status --short be the default instead of the current default of git status --verbose.

Answer 1

See this related stack overflow answer - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2927672/how-can-i-get-git-status-to-always-use-short-format

It looks like the best option would be making an alias, so you could type git s to get the short listing instead of git status --short and then just use git status for the --verbose listing.

git config --global alias.s 'status --short'