From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:41:37 +0900
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On 10/5/07, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> > Personally all I want is a short-option alias for --cached!
> >
> > Hopefully something easily type-able (not uppercase)...
>
> Did you see the aliases I posted earlier in the thread? I can't think
> of anything shorter or semantically clearer than "staged" and
> "unstaged".

The words are ok, I guess, but aliases are not a replacement for short
options.... really all frequently used, non-dangerous, options should
have a short variant (and diff --cached meets both criteria handily)!

-Miles
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