From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:26:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -v
Message-ID: <xmqqmw3tai1q.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <33591b47a7ea8cfa23a3bee05fbf8c0ce4a00b3d.1425390756.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> +diff --git INDEX=staged-for-commit/dir1/modified WORKTREE=not-staged-for-commit/dir1/modified
> +index e69de29..d00491f 100644
> +--- INDEX=staged-for-commit/dir1/modified
> ++++ WORKTREE=not-staged-for-commit/dir1/modified

This might be OK for a project like Git itself, but I suspect people
with long pathnames (like, eh, those in Java land) would not
appreciate it.

Wouldn't mnemonic prefix, which the users are already familiar with,
be the most suitable tool for this disambiguation?  After all that
was what it was invented for 8 years ago.