Re: About --staged ang --cached

On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Lucas Seiki Oshiro [off-list ref] writes:

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Do you think that it would be relevant to add --staged to the other
commands just like [2] did to git-diff? Perhaps this is just a personal
issue, but I find it curious that those commands still have a flag named
after an obsolete name while newer commands are using --staged.

As long as "Only in the index" aspect of the name is kept, I do not
think the exact phrasing matters all that match.  The distinction
between "apply --cached" vs "apply --index" must be expressable even
if you swap "--cached" with something else.

Would it be simpler to remove the label "obsoleted" from the name,
and remove the "--staged" synonym?

I think it makes more sense to add a --staged synonym to commands with
--cached, than to go back the other way.