Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] user-manual: new "getting started" section

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 17, 2009, 22:19 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530911171400ub3b093ai668fd2404b12272f@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> That could be easily fixed by making explicit in the syntax that these
> are not typical refs: i.e. @stage and @work.

The message I get from that suggestion is that the most sensible approach, if we are going to add something from this discussion to "git diff", is to do what you did _not_ quote from my message, which is:

    As to --tree-vs-index counterproposal (was it a counterproposal?),
    except for that I think they are too long to type in practice and need
    to be shortened to be useful, I do not have a fundamental objection
    against it.

IOW, this is about options, and should not be done as syntax sugar that does a half-baked job of pretending to be refs.