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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:19:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004161935.GC17487@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8x6ix3zm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> "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).

Getting a nearly-instantaneous "git diff" would be sufficiently
important to justify its existance on its own, so I think you're
overstating the case.

> The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't
> have to be user-visible, except for speed.

That's a big exception.--b.

> "diff --cached" has nothing to do with the stat information for the
> user.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04 16:20 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
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 [this message]
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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