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

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The 'stage' is probably the most novel-yet-missunderstood feature of git, and
somehow the user interface is not exploiting it properly, even to the point
where it doesn't even have a consistent name (stage, index, cache, etc)

This patch series is one approach that has been working reasonably well for me,
which is to replace the 'git stage' command to map different actions that can
be executed with it.

For example 'git stage diff' is more natural (at least to me) than 'git diff
--cached', same goes for 'git stage rm foo.c' vs 'git rm --cached foo.c'.

This is the list of actions I've mapped:

 * add: git stage = git stage add (git add)
 * rm: (git rm --cached)
 * diff: (git rm --cached)
 * import: stage all files; modified, deleted, new
 * ls: (git ls-files --stage)

Felipe Contreras (2):
  git: remote stage
  Add new 'git stage' script

 Documentation/git-stage.txt |   19 -------------------
 Makefile                    |    2 +-
 git-stage.sh                |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git.c                       |    1 -
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/git-stage.txt
 create mode 100644 git-stage.sh