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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:50:49 -0700
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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.


Dave.