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Re: [1.8.0] use 'stage' term consistently

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 6, 2012, 21:21 UTC
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On Sun, May 6, 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Actually Git porcelain does use 'the index' as a cache (computing),
> > > i.e. as a place to store redundant information (stat data, sha-1
> > > for trees with DIRC dircache extension) for faster access.
> >
> > This is an implementation optimization, that is not supposed to be
> > visible for the user. Commands refering to the "cache" are not about
> > stat data cache (e.g. "git diff --cached" is really about the content,
> > not the stat cache).
> 
> Exactly; that's an implementation detail that doesn't affect how the
> user actually interacts with the staging area.

Well, it does (or hopefully just did) affect the user: _if it fails_, in the form of empty diff on no changes because of stat-dirtyness or racy-git :-P

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2012
  2. Philip OakleyMay 5, 2012
  3. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2012
  4. Philip OakleyMay 5, 2012
  5. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMay 6, 2012
  6. Jakub NarebskiMay 6, 2012
  7. Matthieu MoyMay 6, 2012
  8. Felipe ContrerasMay 6, 2012
  9. Jakub NarebskiMay 6, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  11. Felipe ContrerasMay 6, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyMay 6, 2012
  13. Felipe ContrerasMay 6, 2012
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 6, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2012
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 7, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  18. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 8, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  20. Felipe ContrerasMay 9, 2012
  21. Matthieu MoyMay 9, 2012
  22. Mark LodatoMay 19, 2012
  23. Jonathan NiederMay 19, 2012
  24. Jonathan NiederMay 19, 2012
  25. Felipe ContrerasMay 20, 2012
  26. Jonathan NiederMay 20, 2012
  27. Philip OakleyMay 19, 2012
  28. Felipe ContrerasMay 20, 2012
  29. Jonathan NiederMay 20, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2012
  31. Felipe ContrerasMay 21, 2012
  32. Jonathan NiederMay 21, 2012
  33. Thiago FarinaMay 18, 2012
  34. Sebastien DoucheMay 8, 2012

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