Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Marko Macek <marko.macek@gmx.net>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 06:07 UTC
Message-ID: <455C0033.2020309@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vejs4l9wy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Marko Macek <marko.macek@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>> For people switching from CVS and SVN it would be much better if the
>> index was hidden behind the scenes by using different defaults:
>>
>> git-commit -a
>> git-status -a
>> git-diff HEAD
>>
>> BTW, currently there's a minor bug: git-diff HEAD doesn't work before
>> you make the first commit. Perhaps this should be special cased.
> 
> That's only a _bug_ in your implementation of the synonym for
> "svn diff" which blindly used "git diff HEAD".

My "implementation" is taken from git-diff man page. It seems obvious that the situation before the first commit is just a special case if we consider git-diff to be Porcelain (which I do).

> This "there is no HEAD yet" is not related to the index, but I

I agree, this is a separate issue.