From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:13:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command
Message-ID: <94a0d4530904061213pabd87aj9db577aaa231945c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6ud4otd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:
>
>> What do you mean? This was a suggestion for how git diff should
>> work. I fail to see how you would need a WORKTREEANDTHEINDEX there.
>
> You are talking only about "git diff".  I am talking about the whole git
> suite, because you have to worry about how such a proposal would affect
> other parts of the UI.

How do currently do you something like this:
git diff HEAD^..STAGE

You can't.

This is not an issue for any other git commands, that's why --stage,
--cache, --index make sense for _other_ commands, not 'git diff'.

-- 
Felipe Contreras