From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:25:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command
Message-ID: <20090406192514.GI20356@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530904061213pabd87aj9db577aaa231945c@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009.04.06 22:13:26 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> >
> >> What do you mean? This was a suggestion for how git diff should
> >> work. I fail to see how you would need a WORKTREEANDTHEINDEX there.
> >
> > You are talking only about "git diff".  I am talking about the whole git
> > suite, because you have to worry about how such a proposal would affect
> > other parts of the UI.
> 
> How do currently do you something like this:
> git diff HEAD^..STAGE

git diff --cached HEAD^

The "hard" (and pretty weird) one would be "git diff STAGE..HEAD^",
which is:

git diff -R --cached HEAD^

Björn