Re: Command-line interface thoughts (ad-hominem attacks)

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:39:16AM -0400, Michael Nahas wrote:

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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I don't quite think that we need "git diff NEXT WTREE"; the short
and sweet "git diff" is short for a reason,

To be clear, I'm not advocating and have never advocated getting rid
of zero-argument "git diff".  I've advocated that every (whole
project) diff command should be expressible by a "git diff TREE1
TREE2".  I'm fine with defaults if one or zero trees are specified.

I agree with this, but...

So "git diff" would default to "git diff NEXT WTREE".

Isn't this going to be behavior change, since your NEXT is not quite the
same as the index? How do I now get an n-way combined diff of the
unmerged files in the index?

-Peff