From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:39:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <32541b130811120739t95455d8n9b8056a8033491c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081112110629.GA20473@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Is that so bad?  You have to read all those files anyway in order to do a diff.

Avery