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Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Oct 4, 2007, 12:56 UTC
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<20071004125641.GE15339@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:27:41PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do we have the option "--cached" and not "--index"?

according to glossary.txt, 'cache' is an obsolete for 'index'. probably this is the reason

probably cache.h will be never renamed to index.h, i don't know if diff --cached will be ever renamed to diff --index

- VMiklos
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