Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> >> > About adding index support to git-show, yes it's really messy. index >> > doesn't have tree objects. >> >> Insofar, it is not messy: git-show only shows _objects_. For example, "git >> show :README" works as expected if you have a file called "README" in the >> index... > > Note: this is not completely true. The index contains cache_trees... Let's not go there. I was reviewing the list of plumbing in Documentation/git.txt last night, and I think ls-files is the only command that user may still want to use from the command line every day. I originally thought that it would only be after a conflicted merge, always with -u option, but some people seem to find that "ls-files --others" and friends are useful (I never use that myself) and if so what it does really in the realm of Porcelain. I haven't formed a firm opinion on this yet, but possibilities are: * we reclassify ls-files as a Porcelain-ish (but do not change its UI nor defaults at all); we might want to give a shorter alias to the command, though, if we go this route. * we give '--list' option to 'git show' and in such a case, lack of objects does not default to HEAD -- when no object is given it internally diverts to cmd_ls_files() instead; * we add 'git ls' command to give Porcelain-ish access to ls-tree and ls-files. - 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