From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:15:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless
Message-ID: <7v4p5gdg6c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ee521d6f0808190504u12be6195o71eb2f3a38f73a5f@mail.gmail.com>

"Alexander E Genaud" <alex@genaud.net> writes:

> Thanks for pointing me to 'git-rm --cached'.
>
>> The changes are "cached" in the "Index". But I wouldn't name
>> the "Index" really a "Cache" because it is a lot more. All
>> comments for --cached in the manpages mention the Index
>> mechanism. Additionally there is a more detailed introduction
>> to the Index in section 7 (Git concepts) of the Git User's
>> Manual
>
> Funny the first example shows the contents of the index using a '--stage' flag.
>
> $ git ls-files --stage

For ls-files, --cached mode is the default so you did not even have to say
it in your example.

With the option --stage, you are specifying how that --cached state is
shown.  Normally we do not show the object name nor their merge stages,
but we do when you give the --stage option.

Also look at the end of gitcli(7) documentation.