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

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 16:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20071004161935.GC17487@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8x6ix3zm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> 
> > Yes, the index differs from the work tree or HEAD temporarily, 
> 
> Temporarily, yes, but the _point_ of having it is to have it differ
> from HEAD (otherwise, you can't create a new revision), and from the
> tree (otherwise, index-related commands are useless).

Getting a nearly-instantaneous "git diff" would be sufficiently important to justify its existance on its own, so I think you're overstating the case.

> The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't
> have to be user-visible, except for speed.

That's a big exception.--b.

> "diff --cached" has nothing to do with the stat information for the
> user.