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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:04:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103070430.GC10772@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vprle1qdl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:30:46AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> A flag "--staged" that means "staged changes and changes in the work tree"
> is no worse than the current "--index".  If we were to shoot for clarity,

Well, there is another flag state to be considered, of course, which is
"no flag".  So I think "--staged" is fine to mean the working tree and
staged, as long as the default (i.e., no option given) is to operate on
the working tree.

I can't think offhand of any commands that violate that assumption.

> how about --staged-only (aka --cached) vs --staged-and-unstaged (aka --index)?
> 
> I am actually actively unhappy about the latter, but I like more
> descriptive --staged-only for the former a lot better.

Agreed. --staged-only is fine to me, but --staged-and-unstaged just
seems too long.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 16:15 [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached David Symonds
2008-10-29 16:42 ` Jeff King
2008-10-29 16:50   ` David Symonds
2008-10-29 17:06     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-29 17:11       ` Jeff King
2008-11-02  8:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03  7:04           ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-11-02 12:35         ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-11-02 18:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-02 18:54             ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-11-03  7:14             ` Jeff King
2008-11-10 23:37               ` David Symonds
2008-11-11  0:15                 ` Jeff King
2008-11-11  1:11                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-11  1:22                   ` Jeff King
2008-11-12  0:57                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-11  4:04               ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-11  5:49                 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-12  8:33                 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 11:10                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-12 11:06                     ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 15:39                       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-12 19:15                         ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 19:29                           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 19:37                             ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 19:57                               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 22:39                                 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-12 23:42                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 15:46                     ` Avery Pennarun

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