From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:19:35 GMT Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached Message-ID: <20071004161935.GC17487@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" 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.