From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: "Miklos Vajna" <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:10:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30710040610m49521fb7ld8f95043c945bf94@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004125641.GE15339@genesis.frugalware.org>
On 10/4/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:27:41PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why do we have the option "--cached" and not "--index"?
>
> according to glossary.txt, 'cache' is an obsolete for 'index'. probably
> this is the reason
>
> probably cache.h will be never renamed to index.h, i don't know if diff
> --cached will be ever renamed to diff --index
Believe me, for a GIT newbie git --cached is confusing.
That user started reading "A tutorial introduction to git (for version
1.5.1 or newer)",
after a cuple of minutes of reading he reached "Making changes" saw:
" You are now ready to commit. You can see what is about to be
committed using git-diff(1) with the —cached option:
$ git diff --cached "
$ git diff --index sound a lof more consistent with the general documentation.
Regards,
--
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
http://ubuntista.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 13:10 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 [this message]
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
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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