From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:02:21 GMT
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Message-ID: <vpq8x6ix3zm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20071004155147.GA17487@fieldses.org>

"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.

-- 
Matthieu