From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] status: document the -v/--verbose option
Message-ID: <553A7379.6030408@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAM=ud8zLDTYUp12BsVjWH5=8rg=HxbtdBxL2L9x=3+FQVJBqrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/24/2015 02:27 AM, Pete Harlan wrote:
> Junio writes:
>> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Document `git status -v`, including its new doubled `-vv` form.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
>>> ---
>>
>> Will queue on mg/status-v-v series, which did add description for
>> "commit -v", but "status -v" did not have the description to begin
>> with and we missed it.
> [...]
>>> +-v::
>>> +--verbose::
>>> + In addition to the names of files that have been changed, also
>>> + show the textual changes that are staged to be committed
>>> + (i.e., like the output of `git diff`). If `-v` is specified
> 
> Should this be `git diff --cached`?
> 
>>> + twice, then also show the changes in the working tree that
>>> + have not yet been staged (i.e., like the output of `git diff
>>> + --cached`).
> 
> ...and should this just be `git diff`?

Yes, you're right. Thanks for catching this, Pete. The shorter the
patch, the higher the error density :-(

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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