From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:06:09 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810291804400.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20810290950k6d7acfcbt90b6280c290bd532@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, David Symonds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> > Hmm. I wonder if it would make it more sense to make the "official"
> > name --staged, and leave --cached forever as a synonym. If the goal is
> > giving sane names to end users, then we should probably advertise the
> > sane ones.
>
> I agree. If there's some consensus, I can make that shift, keeping
> --cached as a backward-compatibility synonym.
Yes, I would like that, too.
However, note that we have to hash out what to do about the convention
that --cached traditionally means that only the staging area (formerly
known as "the index") is affected, while --index means that the command
touches the working directory, too.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 17:00 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 [this message]
2008-10-29 17:11 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 8:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03 7:04 ` Jeff King
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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