From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:05:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.
Message-ID: <20081029010534.GA8833@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081029010107.GB12065@leksak.fem-net>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:01:07AM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> I'm still not understanding, what it's for.
> Usability? Because doing
> 	git config --global alias.staged 'diff --cached'
> is lame?

You are missing some of the context, which is that we just had a big
in-person debate about how the staged nomenclature is confusing. We call
things "cached", "staged", and "index", depending on the command.

So this is an attempt to rectify that.

-Peff