--- a/mercurial/configitems.py	Sat May 19 16:50:30 2018 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py	Mon May 14 22:01:27 2018 -0400
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@
 coreconfigitem('commands', 'status.skipstates',
     default=[],
 )
+coreconfigitem('commands', 'status.terse',
+    default='',
+)
 coreconfigitem('commands', 'status.verbose',
     default=False,
 )