Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10:57PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> 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.
Is that so bad? You have to read all those files anyway in order to do a diff.
Avery
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>