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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]

  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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