From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:50:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20810290950k6d7acfcbt90b6280c290bd532@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081029164253.GA3172@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.


Dave.