David Aguilar [off-list ref] writes:
Ah, I know the answer:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/11/12/4072144
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/11/12/4067114
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/11/2/3896104
I did say it *seemed* appealing, not that it actually was ;)
Heh, I forgot all about that.
What is sad about it is that I back then predicted that we will regret
"diff --staged".
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/11/11/4056664