Re: Consistent terminology: cached/staged/index

Miles Bader [off-list ref] writes:

Is there a reason a short version of --cached couldn't be added to
git-diff...?  E.g. "git diff -c"?

I'd suspect that we would like to keep the door open for "diff -c" to do
what the users naturally expect, namely, to produce a patch in the copied
context format.

I don't immediately plan to do so myself, though.