Re: [PATCH 6/7] stage: add 'diff' subcommand

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2021, 07:24 UTC
Message-ID: <61137b336b712_209a208f7@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <8034894f-a8dd-e1ee-1825-7cb172afdba3@gmail.com>

Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

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> On 11/08/21 11.57, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
> >   'git stage' [options] [--] [<paths>...]
> >   'git stage' (-a | --add) [options] [--] [<paths>...]
> >   'git stage' (-r | --remove) [options] [--] [<paths>...]
> > +'git stage' (-d | --diff) [options] [--] [<paths>...]
> >   
> >   
> >   DESCRIPTION
> > @@ -32,11 +33,15 @@ OPTIONS
> >   --remove::
> >   	Remove changes from the staging area. See linkgit:git-reset[1].
> >   
> > +-d::
> > +--diff::
> > +	View the changes staged for the next commit. See linkgit:git-diff[1].
> >   
> 
> Is it synonym to `git diff --staged`?

Yes, it's the same thing.

Although from discussions in 2013 people found it odd that the option is --staged when specifying something that affects the future. It should probably be `git diff --stage`.

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Felipe Contreras