Re: Call Me Gitless

> "Alexander E Genaud" <alex@genaud.net> writes:
> 
> > There is no indication in the documentation distinguishing porcelain
> > from plumbing.
> 
> Well, there is somehow one: "git" and "git help" show just the
> porcelain. Still, I agree with you: marking plumbing as such more
> explicitely could help newbies not to bother with it. For example,
> "man git-update-index" could say right after the synopsys something
> like "This command is meant for scripting purpose. See git-add and
> git-rm for a user-friendly interface".
> 
> > Git-add adds to the index but does not create, however git-rm
> > removes from the index and does delete (an --index-only or --keep
> > flag might be nice).
> 
> git rm actually had a documented --cached flag now, and git rm
> gives an error message pointing to it in the case where it would lose
> data and --force is not provided.
> 
> > A single term for cache and index should be decided upon.
> 
> +1 on this.
> 
> I find "staging area" the most explicit wording for users, but I say
> that as a non-native english speaker.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not only a matter of documentation. Renaming "git
> diff --cached" to "git diff --staged" would cause backward
> compatibility problems for example.