Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:

>>    - when you want to work with both the index and the work tree at the
>>      same time, you say STAGEANDWORKTREE (the same disambiguation caveat
>>      applies).
>
> No, where did this come from?

"git apply STAGEANDWORKTREE this.patch".  I do not want "for diff you can
use these metavariables to name two things compared, but you can do so
only for diff".

>> Think.  What does "git log STAGE" mean?  Can you explain why it does not
>> make any sense?
>
> As I already explained, you read way to much into my message.

I think the fundamental difference between us is that you are too attached
to the notion of "for diff you can use these metavariables to name two
things compared".  That by itself looks very nice if you only look at the
diff command line, but I do not want "but you can do so only for diff, so
you have to unlearn the metavariables and do thing in different ways for
other commands" part.