From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:57:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index
Message-ID: <7vr5bbupj4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87k4h34bhj.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Is there a reason a short version of --cached couldn't be added to
> git-diff...?  E.g. "git diff -c"?

I'd suspect that we would like to keep the door open for "diff -c" to do
what the users naturally expect, namely, to produce a patch in the copied
context format.

I don't immediately plan to do so myself, though.