Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

--work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply
"working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git
already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar).

Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but I
felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give much
more value,

I think it does: I understand --work as "the verb to work", so 
"git reset --work" sounds like "tell 'git reset' to work", while
"git reset --work-tree" sounds like "tell git to reset the work tree".

except more characters to type =/

Then, we can have --work-tree and a short version -w.

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Matthieu Moy
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