From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:07:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index
Message-ID: <AANLkTinnCLVDEZpNPVYZ2fq1BY=257BTxkzNj44-Yz3O@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyg6tu9e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>>> Short options should really not be "wasted" easily. "-s" named after "to
>>> stage" is really problematic, as outlined in this thread.
>>
>> Er, but the point is that this is _such_ a common operation, that a
>> short option for it would not be "wasted" at all.
>
> True, but I am afraid "-c" is not it, as it would certainly be confusing
> to users who know what "diff" does before they learn "git diff".

Er...?

Here we were talking about using "-s" (inspired by "--staged"), which
I suggested because you earlier objected to "-c"...

-miles

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