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[RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2009, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID
<1238939331-10152-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Hi,

The 'stage' is probably the most novel-yet-missunderstood feature of git, and somehow the user interface is not exploiting it properly, even to the point where it doesn't even have a consistent name (stage, index, cache, etc)

This patch series is one approach that has been working reasonably well for me, which is to replace the 'git stage' command to map different actions that can be executed with it.

For example 'git stage diff' is more natural (at least to me) than 'git diff --cached', same goes for 'git stage rm foo.c' vs 'git rm --cached foo.c'.

This is the list of actions I've mapped:
 * add: git stage = git stage add (git add)
 * rm: (git rm --cached)
 * diff: (git rm --cached)
 * import: stage all files; modified, deleted, new
 * ls: (git ls-files --stage)
Felipe Contreras (2):
  git: remote stage
  Add new 'git stage' script
 Documentation/git-stage.txt |   19 -------------------
 Makefile                    |    2 +-
 git-stage.sh                |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git.c                       |    1 -
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/git-stage.txt
 create mode 100644 git-stage.sh
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Message 1 of 38 in “New 'stage' command”
  1. 0/2 New 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Apr 5, 2009
  2. 1/2 git: remote stageFelipe Contreras, Apr 5, 2009
  3. 2/2 Add new 'git stage' scriptFelipe Contreras, Apr 5, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2009
  5. Felipe ContrerasApr 5, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2009
  8. Felipe ContrerasApr 5, 2009
  9. Jay SoffianApr 5, 2009
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 5, 2009
  11. 0/2 Re: New 'stage' commandNicolas Sebrecht, Apr 5, 2009
  12. Markus HeidelbergApr 5, 2009
  13. Felipe ContrerasApr 5, 2009
  14. Björn SteinbrinkApr 5, 2009
  15. Markus HeidelbergApr 5, 2009
  16. Björn SteinbrinkApr 6, 2009
  17. Markus HeidelbergApr 5, 2009
  18. Sverre RabbelierApr 5, 2009
  19. Johannes SchindelinApr 5, 2009
  20. Felipe ContrerasApr 6, 2009
  21. David AguilarApr 6, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2009
  23. David AguilarApr 6, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2009
  25. David KågedalApr 6, 2009
  26. David KågedalApr 6, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2009
  28. Felipe ContrerasApr 6, 2009
  29. Björn SteinbrinkApr 6, 2009
  30. Felipe ContrerasApr 7, 2009
  31. Johannes SchindelinApr 7, 2009
  32. Matthieu MoyApr 6, 2009
  33. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2009
  34. Stefan KarpinskiApr 7, 2009
  35. Octavio AlvarezApr 7, 2009
  36. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2009
  37. Octavio AlvarezApr 7, 2009
  38. Octavio AlvarezApr 7, 2009

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