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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2009, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530904070301k62687e2i772637068494ab74@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090406192514.GI20356@atjola.homenet>

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On 2009.04.06 22:13:26 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> 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
>
> git diff --cached HEAD^
>
> The "hard" (and pretty weird) one would be "git diff STAGE..HEAD^",
> which is:
>
> git diff -R --cached HEAD^

Sorry, that's what I meant.

So it's possible, but completely unintuitive, and different from other use cases.

-- 
Felipe Contreras