Re: Call Me Gitless

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

"Alexander E Genaud" <alex@genaud.net> writes:

> There is no indication in the documentation distinguishing porcelain
> from plumbing.

Well, there is somehow one: "git" and "git help" show just the
porcelain. Still, I agree with you: marking plumbing as such more
explicitely could help newbies not to bother with it. For example,
"man git-update-index" could say right after the synopsys something
like "This command is meant for scripting purpose. See git-add and
git-rm for a user-friendly interface".

> Git-add adds to the index but does not create, however git-rm
> removes from the index and does delete (an --index-only or --keep
> flag might be nice).

git rm actually had a documented --cached flag now, and git rm
gives an error message pointing to it in the case where it would lose
data and --force is not provided.

> A single term for cache and index should be decided upon.

+1 on this.

I find "staging area" the most explicit wording for users, but I say
that as a non-native english speaker.

Unfortunately, it's not only a matter of documentation. Renaming "git
diff --cached" to "git diff --staged" would cause backward
compatibility problems for example.

-- 
Matthieu