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Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Oct 4, 2007, 16:02 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> Yes, the index differs from the work tree or HEAD temporarily,

Temporarily, yes, but the _point_ of having it is to have it differ from HEAD (otherwise, you can't create a new revision), and from the tree (otherwise, index-related commands are useless).

The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't have to be user-visible, except for speed. "diff --cached" has nothing to do with the stat information for the user.

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Matthieu
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