From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wincent Colaiuta Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:27:24 +0200 Message-ID: <0A7AA9C3-6D9E-4B14-822D-05232F0EAF99@wincent.com> References: <4d8e3fd30710040527j61152b2dh1b073504ba19d490@mail.gmail.com> <5ACC5CA7-8314-4035-94EC-190138A25EBD@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi , "Git Mailing List" To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 05 12:28:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdkPy-0006DO-Jv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:28:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752567AbXJEK1h convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:27:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752948AbXJEK1h (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:27:37 -0400 Received: from wincent.com ([72.3.236.74]:53310 "EHLO s69819.wincent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759115AbXJEK1f convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:27:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.129] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by s69819.wincent.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l95ARVml007701; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:27:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: El 5/10/2007, a las 7:59, Miles Bader escribi=F3: > Wincent Colaiuta writes: >> You're probably right that the option name is confusing, I guess >> changing it to "--index" would be a good idea, continuing to support >> "--cached" but marking it as deprecated before finally removing it a= t >> some point in the future. > > Personally all I want is a short-option alias for --cached! > > Hopefully something easily type-able (not uppercase)... Did you see the aliases I posted earlier in the thread? I can't think =20 of anything shorter or semantically clearer than "staged" and =20 "unstaged". Cheers, Wincent