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Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index

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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Feb 14, 2011, 11:04 UTC
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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. [The whole concept of "wasting" short options doesn't even make sense unless you're willing to then use the resulting "preserved" options eventually...]

Indeed it seems a little weird that there's not one for this already, given how common short options are in git generally, often for far less useful options than --cached/--staged; I can only guess that the reason is basically historical accident.

As for the exact letter chosen, "-s" seems perfectly fine to me. Short options do not need to be "perfect" to be useful, and the connection with --staged is a perfectly plausible memory aid for that short period during which people memorize them.

-Miles
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