Re: [PATCH 6/8] checkout: add --cached option

>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:10 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am getting the impression that to save typing, you would want to
> > > make "--index --worktree" the default (i.e. among the above, only
> > > --no-index and --no-worktree need to be spelled explicitly), but
> > > there is one glitch.  Updating from the index must be spelled
> > > explicitly with "--no-index --worktree".
> >
> > And after getting reminded by Elijah, the default pair is
> > <--no-index, --worktree>.
>
> Why would you want --no-index or --no-worktree as flags?  That seems
> to presume a default of modifying both the index and the working tree,
> as these names imply undoing pieces of such a default.
>
> I'd rather have a flag like --worktree which alone only modifies the
> working tree and is presumed to be the default (but useful to be
> explicit or as mentioned later), have a flag for applying the changes
> to the index instead (--index?), and treat applying to both the
> working tree and the index as unusual and require either both flags
> (--worktree --index ?) or some special flag that likely has a longer
> name (--worktree-and-index?).