From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:06:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <20081112110629.GA20473@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811121205100.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Just in case anybody thought about creating tree objects on the fly and 
> use their SHA-1s: that won't fly, as you can have unmerged entries in the 
> index.  So STAGED.. is a _fundamentally_ different thing from HEAD^..

I thought about that at first, too, but the working tree is even more
painful. You would have to hash every changed file on the filesystem to
create the tree object.

-Peff