Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Marcus Griep <neoeinstein@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 03:55 UTC
Message-ID: <48AA4430.3060207@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy72tit90.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> This implements Daniel's idea to indicate what are compared by using
> prefix different from the traditional a/ and b/ in the textual diff
> header:
> 
>     "git diff" compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
>     "git diff HEAD" compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
>     "git diff --cached" compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
>     "git diff HEAD:f /tmp/f" compares an (o)bject and (w)ork tree.
> 
> Because these mnemonics now have meanings, they are swapped when reverse
> diff is in effect.

I like this proposal-ish; making the prefixes more intuitive could be useful when looking at a bare diff from git too. I'd put some time in to help implement this.

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