Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> It is `git diff-index --cached HEAD`.
>
>> What should happen in "diff-index --cached HEAD", I offhand do not
>> know. "diff-index --cached HEAD" is a request to compare two trees,
>> i.e. the tree that _would_ be produced if you wrote the index out as
>> a tree (i.e. "git write-tree") right now, and the tree of HEAD. So
>> I think it may be sensible for the command to behave as if the i-t-a
>> path does not even exist in the index when it is run with "--cached";
>> I may be missing some subtleties that require us to do something
>> different, but that is what I would think.
>
> This is what I think too. Can we then treat this as a bug, and work on
> fixing it? Does any subsystem expert have any comments and/or provide
> extra context?
I do not think Phillip considers himself an expert in this area, but
what he pointed out in the thread
http://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqo8kz70xv.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
is worth listening to.
