From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:03:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20081029003931.GA7291@sigill.intra.peff.net> <1225241048-99267-1-git-send-email-dsymonds@gmail.com> <08FC4756-8890-449D-BB55-90E4761C9B93@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Symonds , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, Jeff King To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 29 17:57:56 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvEMd-0003li-Ow for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:57:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753894AbYJ2Q4d (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:56:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753851AbYJ2Q4d (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:56:33 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41490 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753802AbYJ2Q4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:56:32 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2008 16:56:30 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO pacific.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 29 Oct 2008 17:56:30 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/TxbJTNY/TtR0e/FWab9JfQQEsjYryIY+RGLO4Th 8HEZAJrjowr8Ke X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: <08FC4756-8890-449D-BB55-90E4761C9B93@wincent.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.75 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > Git already has too many commands. Adding more is not going to clear up > newbie confusion, and will only waste time because people will complain > about it and ask why there is this kind of duplication. I completely disagree. If the existing set of commands causes confusion, we need to deprecate those parts and add new commands. Even if we have a ton of commands already. It does not need to hurt, either. Just think of init-db. Ever heard of it? We still have it, yet it is not relevant. Ciao, Dscho