From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Stephan Beyer" <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:49:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoej1iak1p.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130811102004n54a47331v48ba8d299039897f@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:04:42 -0500")
"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> Speaking just for myself, I would find this all a lot less confusing
> if "staged" were a refspec of some sort, not an option at all.
>
> git diff HEAD..STAGED
> git diff STAGED..WORKTREE
> git grep pattern STAGED HEAD sillybranch WORKTREE ^ignorebranch --
> path/to/files
Another thing that seems strange to me is that the operation of diffing
HEAD..STAGED is so verbose -- currently it's "git diff --cached", with
no short option.
Surely this is very common operation... I rather often want to see
details of what's staged for commit...
-Miles
--
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 16:15 [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached David Symonds
2008-10-29 16:42 ` Jeff King
2008-10-29 16:50 ` David Symonds
2008-10-29 17:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-29 17:11 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 8:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03 7:04 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 12:35 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-11-02 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-02 18:54 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-11-03 7:14 ` Jeff King
2008-11-10 23:37 ` David Symonds
2008-11-11 0:15 ` Jeff King
2008-11-11 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-11 1:22 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-11 4:04 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-11 5:49 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-11-12 8:33 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 11:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-12 11:06 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 15:39 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-12 19:15 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 19:37 ` Jeff King
2008-11-12 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 22:39 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-11-12 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 15:46 ` Avery Pennarun
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