From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:06:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810291804400.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20810290950k6d7acfcbt90b6280c290bd532@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, David Symonds wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. I wonder if it would make it more sense to make the "official" 
> > name --staged, and leave --cached forever as a synonym. If the goal is 
> > giving sane names to end users, then we should probably advertise the 
> > sane ones.
> 
> I agree. If there's some consensus, I can make that shift, keeping 
> --cached as a backward-compatibility synonym.

Yes, I would like that, too.

However, note that we have to hash out what to do about the convention 
that --cached traditionally means that only the staging area (formerly 
known as "the index") is affected, while --index means that the command 
touches the working directory, too.

Ciao,
Dscho