status to only show parent dir of many unknown files

[Denis Laxalde]

Augie Fackler wrote:
>  Note that I'd
> like to talk to mpm this cycle and see if we can put this in hgext
> (with an eye towards it being part of FriendlyHG when I get around to
> that config knob.)

Couldn't it just be an option?
Something like:

[status]
terse = True

See also http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4119 for the record.