Re: [PATCH] Implement git-staged, an alias for 'git diff --cached'.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:01:07AM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote:

I'm still not understanding, what it's for.
Usability? Because doing
	git config --global alias.staged 'diff --cached'
is lame?

You are missing some of the context, which is that we just had a big
in-person debate about how the staged nomenclature is confusing. We call
things "cached", "staged", and "index", depending on the command.

So this is an attempt to rectify that.

-Peff