From: Miles Bader Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:49:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32541b130811102004n54a47331v48ba8d299039897f@mail.gmail.com> "Avery Pennarun" writes: > Speaking just for myself, I would find this all a lot less confusing > if "staged" were a refspec of some sort, not an option at all. > > git diff HEAD..STAGED > git diff STAGED..WORKTREE > git grep pattern STAGED HEAD sillybranch WORKTREE ^ignorebranch -- > path/to/files Another thing that seems strange to me is that the operation of diffing HEAD..STAGED is so verbose -- currently it's "git diff --cached", with no short option. Surely this is very common operation... I rather often want to see details of what's staged for commit... -Miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin]