From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:57:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <7v63mtu5fy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081111012210.GA26920@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> To me, what is really being asked with "git diff --staged" (or "git
> diff --cached" for that matter), is "what is staged?"

Ok, "what is staged (in index)?", relative to the named commit which
defaults to HEAD, is a good argument.  Let's apply it.