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Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Aug 29, 2013, 21:03 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
>> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git
>> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar).
>
> Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but I
> felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give much
> more value,

I think it does: I understand --work as "the verb to work", so "git reset --work" sounds like "tell 'git reset' to work", while "git reset --work-tree" sounds like "tell git to reset the work tree".

> except more characters to type =/
Then, we can have --work-tree and a short version -w.
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Matthieu Moy
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Message 52 of 58 in “Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'”
  1. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  2. 0/2 stage: proper 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  3. 1/2 Add proper 'stage' commandFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  5. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  6. 2/2 stage: add edit commandFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  8. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  9. 0/9 Add --stage and --work optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  10. 1/9 diff: document --stagedFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  11. 2/9 grep: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  12. 3/9 rm: add --staged optionFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  13. 4/9 stash: add --stage option to saveFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  14. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  15. 5/9 stash: add --stage to pop and applyFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  16. 6/9 submodule: add --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  17. 7/9 apply: add --stage optionFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  18. 8/9 apply: add --work, --no-work optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  19. 9/9 completion: update --staged optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  20. 0/3 reset: refactor into --stage and --workFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  21. 1/3 reset: add --stage and --work optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  22. 2/3 reset: allow --keep with --stageFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  23. 3/3 completion: update 'git reset' new stage optionsFelipe Contreras, Aug 29, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2013
  25. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  26. Felipe ContrerasAug 30, 2013
  27. Felipe ContrerasAug 30, 2013
  28. Felipe ContrerasAug 30, 2013
  29. Felipe ContrerasAug 30, 2013
  30. Drew NorthupAug 29, 2013
  31. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  32. Drew NorthupSep 4, 2013
  33. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  34. Piotr KrukowieckiAug 30, 2013
  35. Drew NorthupSep 4, 2013
  36. Piotr KrukowieckiSep 4, 2013
  37. Drew NorthupSep 4, 2013
  38. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  39. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  40. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  41. Philip OakleySep 8, 2013
  42. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  43. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  44. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  45. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  46. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  47. René ScharfeAug 29, 2013
  48. Felipe ContrerasAug 29, 2013
  49. René ScharfeAug 31, 2013
  50. Felipe ContrerasAug 31, 2013
  51. David AguilarSep 1, 2013
  52. Matthieu MoyAug 29, 2013
  53. William SwansonSep 4, 2013
  54. Ping YinSep 6, 2013
  55. Hilco WijbengaSep 6, 2013
  56. Felipe ContrerasSep 8, 2013
  57. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 9, 2013
  58. Felipe ContrerasSep 9, 2013

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