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

El 29/10/2008, a las 16:08, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

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El 29/10/2008, a las 1:44, David Symonds escribió:

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+SCRIPT_SH += git-staged.sh

Isn't this exactly what aliases are for?
 git config --global alias.staged "diff --cached"
(Rather than adding yet another command...)

The difference being, of course, that we do not ship default aliases  
(and
neither do we plan to...).

So saying "this is what aliases are for" you ask for _newbies_ to  
add it
for themselves.  We are talking the same newbies who should be  
helped by
that command, and typically do not know that there are Git aliases  
yet.

Even worse, just sum the times it takes everybody to make that  
alias, and
then compare with the time it would take to include something like  
David
posted in git.git.  It should be obvious that the time balance is
absolutely horrible.

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.

W