Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached

El 4/10/2007, a las 14:27, Paolo Ciarrocchi escribió:

Hi all,
I'm having and interesting discussion with an happy mercurial users
which started reading the git documentation. He raised aquestion that
I'm not able to answer:

quoted

$ git diff --cached

(Without —cached, git-diff(1) will show you any changes that you've
made but not yet added to the index.) You can also get a brief  
summary
of the situation with git-status(1):

Why do we have the option "--cached" and not "--index"?

I am not an "old timer", but I believe that it's because what we now  
know as "the index" was original called "the cache". See:

<http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHistory>

You're probably right that the option name is confusing, I guess  
changing it to "--index" would be a good idea, continuing to support  
"--cached" but marking it as deprecated before finally removing it at  
some point in the future.

Cheers,
Wincent