On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:02:21PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Yes, the index differs from the work tree or HEAD temporarily, > > Temporarily, yes, but the _point_ of having it is to have it differ > from HEAD (otherwise, you can't create a new revision), and from the > tree (otherwise, index-related commands are useless). Getting a nearly-instantaneous "git diff" would be sufficiently important to justify its existance on its own, so I think you're overstating the case. > The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't > have to be user-visible, except for speed. That's a big exception.--b. > "diff --cached" has nothing to do with the stat information for the > user. - 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
