> So we're going to stop setting OMIT_STATUS ever, which makes sense.
> 
> It took me a minute to figure out here that the behavior for VERBOSE is
> not changed, because we _overwrite_ flags, rather than just setting a
> single bit. But that's definitely the right thing to do when there's a
> format (both before and after your patch).
> 
> So this looks good to me. I think we should probably cover it with a
> test in t7004.

Yes, that's something that surprised me originally, as these changes
don't make the test suite break in any way...

I'll add a patch to the series with a test for this.

Thanks for the review!
-Santiago.