On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Kågedal <davidk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> What do you mean? This was a suggestion for how git diff should >> work. I fail to see how you would need a WORKTREEANDTHEINDEX there. > > You are talking only about "git diff". I am talking about the whole git > suite, because you have to worry about how such a proposal would affect > other parts of the UI. How do currently do you something like this: git diff HEAD^..STAGE You can't. This is not an issue for any other git commands, that's why --stage, --cache, --index make sense for _other_ commands, not 'git diff'. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html