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Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.

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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Oct 29, 2008, 14:33 UTC
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Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:01:07AM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> 
>> I'm still not understanding, what it's for.
>> Usability? Because doing
>> 	git config --global alias.staged 'diff --cached'
>> is lame?
> 
> You are missing some of the context,

Yeah, it would have been nice if there was audio. Anyone take minutes, possibly?

btw the term "staged" makes perfect sense to me, whereas "cached" was not intuitively obvious to me.

-brandon
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Message 22 of 25 in “Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.”
  1. Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.David Symonds, Oct 28, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 28, 2008
  3. Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.David Symonds, Oct 28, 2008
  4. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  5. Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.David Symonds, Oct 29, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  7. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  8. Wincent ColaiutaOct 29, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  10. Stephan BeyerOct 29, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  12. Wincent ColaiutaOct 29, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  14. Pascal ObryOct 29, 2008
  15. Wincent ColaiutaOct 29, 2008
  16. Teemu LikonenOct 29, 2008
  17. David KågedalOct 29, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinOct 29, 2008
  19. Wincent ColaiutaOct 29, 2008
  20. Stephan BeyerOct 29, 2008
  21. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  22. Brandon CaseyOct 29, 2008
  23. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  24. Pascal ObryOct 29, 2008
  25. Felipe ContrerasOct 29, 2008

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