From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:58:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.
Message-ID: <20081029005814.GA8686@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810290201400.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:02:29AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > +git-staged
> 
> Would it not be better to teach "git show --staged" to do that, and to add 
> a command pair "git stage <file>" and "git unstage <file>" to do the 
> obvious?

Yes, I think half of the discussion went on IRC. But I don't think "git
staged" is a good idea. I think a "--staged" alias for "--cached" in
"git diff" makes a lot more sense.

-Peff