From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:15:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Two crazy proposals for changing git's diff commands
Message-ID: <20060212031527.GA31228@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfymtl43b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Of course, learning various flags to give "git diff" is part of
> understanding the index

Well, there's understanding the index, and then there's memorizing the
flags.  I would've thought it'd be a lot easier to remember something
like

git diff HEAD INDEX
git diff INDEX WORK
git diff HEAD WORK

than, respectively,

git diff --cached
git diff
git diff HEAD

But maybe that's just me.  (And maybe the namespace in question is
already to crowded to allow for INDEX and WORK.)

--b.