Re: Call Me Gitless

Hi Alex!

--- Alexander E Genaud <alex@genaud.net> schrieb am Di, 19.8.2008:

Von: Alexander E Genaud [off-list ref]
Betreff: Re: Call Me Gitless
An: "Junio C Hamano" [off-list ref]
CC: "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" <redacted>, git@vger.kernel.org
Datum: Dienstag, 19. August 2008, 10:57
...
Remote never seems to do what I expect, so I manually edit
the .git/refs!! 
Nor is git-reset what I expect and use git
checkout (which
does make sense only after a few backup trials). Git-add
adds to the
index but does not create, however git-rm removes from the
index and
does delete (an --index-only or --keep flag might be nice).

This is explicitely stated in the git-rm manpages: --cached:  Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index. Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be left alone.

A single term for cache and index should be decided upon.
git diff --cached is not intuitive when 'index' is used
throughout the documentation. 

The changes are "cached" in the "Index". But I wouldn't name the "Index" really a "Cache" because it is a lot more. All comments for --cached in the manpages mention the Index mechanism. 
Additionally there is a more detailed introduction to the Index in section 7 (Git concepts) of the Git User's Manual 

LieGrue,
strub

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