Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 29/10/2008, a las 1:44, David Symonds escribió:
>>
>>> +SCRIPT_SH += git-staged.sh
>>
>> Isn't this exactly what aliases are for?
>>  git config --global alias.staged "diff --cached"
>> (Rather than adding yet another command...)
>
> The difference being, of course, that we do not ship default aliases  
> (and
> neither do we plan to...).
>
> So saying "this is what aliases are for" you ask for _newbies_ to  
> add it
> for themselves.  We are talking the same newbies who should be  
> helped by
> that command, and typically do not know that there are Git aliases  
> yet.
>
> Even worse, just sum the times it takes everybody to make that  
> alias, and
> then compare with the time it would take to include something like  
> David
> posted in git.git.  It should be obvious that the time balance is
> absolutely horrible.