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From: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Wincent Colaiuta" <win@wincent.com>
Cc: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:41:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a0710050341v11a7f9f7j3cf24403d2231886@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A7AA9C3-6D9E-4B14-822D-05232F0EAF99@wincent.com>

On 10/5/07, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> > Personally all I want is a short-option alias for --cached!
> >
> > Hopefully something easily type-able (not uppercase)...
>
> Did you see the aliases I posted earlier in the thread? I can't think
> of anything shorter or semantically clearer than "staged" and
> "unstaged".

The words are ok, I guess, but aliases are not a replacement for short
options.... really all frequently used, non-dangerous, options should
have a short variant (and diff --cached meets both criteria handily)!

-Miles
-- 
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04 12:27 A few usability question about git diff --cached Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 12:54 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05  5:59   ` Miles Bader
2007-10-05 10:27     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05 10:41       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-10-04 12:56 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-10-04 13:10   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 13:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 13:39     ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 14:09     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-04 14:34     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-04 14:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 14:47         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-04 14:44       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 15:51         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-04 16:02           ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 16:19             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-05  6:40               ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-05  5:22         ` David Tweed
2007-10-04 15:49       ` Wincent Colaiuta
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2023-01-12 11:54 Mohammed Al-Mahmeed

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