From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Two crazy proposals for changing git's diff commands Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:15:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20060212031527.GA31228@fieldses.org> References: <87slqtcr2f.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vfymtl43b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carl Worth , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 12 04:15:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F87i1-0006K4-Eu for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:15:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932116AbWBLDPb (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:15:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932194AbWBLDPa (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:15:30 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:8074 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116AbWBLDPa (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:15:30 -0500 Received: from bfields by pickle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F87hv-0000qz-N5; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:15:27 -0500 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vfymtl43b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Of course, learning various flags to give "git diff" is part of > understanding the index Well, there's understanding the index, and then there's memorizing the flags. I would've thought it'd be a lot easier to remember something like git diff HEAD INDEX git diff INDEX WORK git diff HEAD WORK than, respectively, git diff --cached git diff git diff HEAD But maybe that's just me. (And maybe the namespace in question is already to crowded to allow for INDEX and WORK.) --b.