From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:23:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Re* git commit fails under some circumstances
Message-ID: <1301991804.2320.13.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vvp5cxn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 01:18 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The alternative, "git add everything else, then use git diff --cached" I
> > believe is unsuitable
> 
> It sounds as if you are looking for "git diff HEAD" to me...
> 

Quite possible another case of "the mindset of someone used to using the
index, and so always wanting to reference it, clashing with the mindset
of someone who never uses the index, and so doesn't even consider it".
Quite possible this is indeed the solution that was needed.