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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:05:34 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:01:07AM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> I'm still not understanding, what it's for.
> Usability? Because doing
> 	git config --global alias.staged 'diff --cached'
> is lame?

You are missing some of the context, which is that we just had a big
in-person debate about how the staged nomenclature is confusing. We call
things "cached", "staged", and "index", depending on the command.

So this is an attempt to rectify that.

-Peff