From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:11:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <20081029171122.GA12167@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810291804400.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:06:09PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> However, note that we have to hash out what to do about the convention 
> that --cached traditionally means that only the staging area (formerly 
> known as "the index") is affected, while --index means that the command 
> touches the working directory, too.

If we assume that we have only the word "stage" and variations
available, then there aren't too many options.

  only the staging area:
    --stage-only, --staged-only

  both:
    --staged (as opposed to --staged-only) --stage-and-worktree (too
    long), --both (not descriptive enough), --stage-too (yuck)

-Peff