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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Rename git-rm --cached to --index
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:25:50 -0700
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Please don't make naming inconsistent.  --index means "do things that
usually affect only work tree also to the index as well", while --cached
means "act only on the index" (study "git apply" for another example).

"git rm" that does not touch work tree but removes only the index entry
should be named --cached.