From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:25:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Rename git-rm --cached to --index
Message-ID: <7vprr6roxt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080528231405.GA25416@denkbrett.schottelius.org>

Please don't make naming inconsistent.  --index means "do things that
usually affect only work tree also to the index as well", while --cached
means "act only on the index" (study "git apply" for another example).

"git rm" that does not touch work tree but removes only the index entry
should be named --cached.