From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:57:19 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr5bbupj4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20110213193738.GA26868@elie> <7v8vxjwnhj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87k4h34bhj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Piotr Krukowiecki , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 14 06:57:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PorRL-0004Ba-1N for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:57:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751079Ab1BNF5e (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:57:34 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:47428 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750911Ab1BNF5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:57:32 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A3A3E96; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:58:34 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=rSROTAJhp9MXMdJa+A1EKrb+PC0=; b=NsTZrw 3uG4PMHQwOCVnhSa5TPDN0ae4jCTBLQwuNsixrpY2j2J+Ji4ZEvV3xHCW6PXQdk2 c17Sq21bGKvhEBZzXDJsG64EvlZuVpkTm+Ww9aZID46y3sKYNC6TOz7NgnA+c+Dc g8BJr2xfVXbhPq+tP9X4fzr7TfWQTnllTvTII= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=DNdvb5Fvylb920/a+YZ0U2Z0eCoDHrKx Tj1BO8o483C42vVNC/F4Szd8f4mQ/BkDcQMkkxjxsoDme0QELa78CDE7E6MOFOt0 cJ43NSig8b0RVtux23d7Gxfa8RcSWOyt37/Ak+dvD1HFdWSoFKUJpzdhF/xOAgo1 qlpiTLFZAyU= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90C53E95; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:58:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C49F3E94; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:58:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87k4h34bhj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon\, 14 Feb 2011 11\:05\:12 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 72FD4F40-37FF-11E0-B353-AF401E47CF6F-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Is there a reason a short version of --cached couldn't be added to > git-diff...? E.g. "git diff -c"? I'd suspect that we would like to keep the door open for "diff -c" to do what the users naturally expect, namely, to produce a patch in the copied context format. I don't immediately plan to do so myself, though.