Re: [PATCH] git-diff: Add --staged as a synonym for --cached.

"Avery Pennarun" [off-list ref] writes:

Speaking just for myself, I would find this all a lot less confusing
if "staged" were a refspec of some sort, not an option at all.

   git diff HEAD..STAGED
   git diff STAGED..WORKTREE
   git grep pattern STAGED HEAD sillybranch WORKTREE ^ignorebranch --
path/to/files

Another thing that seems strange to me is that the operation of diffing
HEAD..STAGED is so verbose -- currently it's "git diff --cached", with
no short option.

Surely this is very common operation... I rather often want to see
details of what's staged for commit...

-Miles

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