Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Marko Macek [off-list ref] writes:

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For people switching from CVS and SVN it would be much better if the
index was hidden behind the scenes by using different defaults:

git-commit -a
git-status -a
git-diff HEAD

BTW, currently there's a minor bug: git-diff HEAD doesn't work before
you make the first commit. Perhaps this should be special cased.

That's only a _bug_ in your implementation of the synonym for
"svn diff" which blindly used "git diff HEAD".

My "implementation" is taken from git-diff man page. It seems obvious
that the situation before the first commit is just a special case if 
we consider git-diff to be Porcelain (which I do).

 

This "there is no HEAD yet" is not related to the index, but I

I agree, this is a separate issue.