I like how gitk shows the local changes as an unnamed commit at the top, but what I *don't* like is how it just ignored the difference between stuff that has been added to the index, and stuff that hasn't.. It would be very nice to have *two* such commits (either or both of which just disappear), where the top-most is the diff to the index, and the second is the diff from the index to HEAD. That would not only be useful in general, it would be a wonderful way to visually introduce people to the notion of what the staging area is all about. I think "gitk" was a great way early in git history to show how the git commit history works and that it made a lot of people understand a lot more how everything tied together (in a way that would have been much nastier to visualize with just the SHA1's in "git log"), and I think it could do the same thing for the staging area, which still seems to occasionally come up as an issue that confuses some people. But my inability with tcl/tk precludes me from actually changing the logic that does git diff-index HEAD into two different things that do the two operations git diff-index --cached HEAD git diff-files respectively and ties them together as the two fake commits... Paul? Linus - 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
