From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:19:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004161935.GC17487@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8x6ix3zm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>
> > Yes, the index differs from the work tree or HEAD temporarily,
>
> Temporarily, yes, but the _point_ of having it is to have it differ
> from HEAD (otherwise, you can't create a new revision), and from the
> tree (otherwise, index-related commands are useless).
Getting a nearly-instantaneous "git diff" would be sufficiently
important to justify its existance on its own, so I think you're
overstating the case.
> The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't
> have to be user-visible, except for speed.
That's a big exception.--b.
> "diff --cached" has nothing to do with the stat information for the
> user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 12:27 A few usability question about git diff --cached Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 12:54 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05 5:59 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-05 10:27 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05 10:41 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-04 12:56 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-10-04 13:10 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 13:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 13:39 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 14:09 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-04 14:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-04 14:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 14:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-04 14:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 15:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-04 16:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 16:19 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-10-05 6:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-05 5:22 ` David Tweed
2007-10-04 15:49 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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