Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2009, 09:37 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530904060237u6d1cafb6x49999000526ead00@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904060141190.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 01:17, Markus Heidelberg
>> <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
>> > Felipe Contreras, 06.04.2009:
>> >> But actually, "git diff --cached" is a different action; you can't do
>> >> "git diff --cached HEAD^.." for example.
>> >
>> > And I neither could I do "git stage diff HEAD^.."
>>
>> I rest my case ;). That's the whole point Felipe is trying to make here.
>> $ git diff --cached
>> $ git diff HEAD^..
>>
>> [...]
>
> Could you post at some stage what the current state of this discussion is,
> so that people who do not have time to read all those mails, let alone
> fire off 10+ mails per hour, can comment about their view of things?
>
> So far, it seems that the view of only a handful is represented in that
> thread.

So far it seems nobody likes the idea. Junio has explained why things are the way they are, but he hasn't answered my arguments, including the fact that this doesn't change anything, it merely adds options to an already existing command.

This is the mail that hasn't been answered yet: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115705

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Felipe Contreras