On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:11:33AM +0200, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > "Alexander E Genaud" <alex@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There is no indication in the documentation distinguishing porcelain > > from plumbing. > > Well, there is somehow one: "git" and "git help" show just the > porcelain. Still, I agree with you: marking plumbing as such more > explicitely could help newbies not to bother with it. For example, > "man git-update-index" could say right after the synopsys something > like "This command is meant for scripting purpose. See git-add and > git-rm for a user-friendly interface". > > > Git-add adds to the index but does not create, however git-rm > > removes from the index and does delete (an --index-only or --keep > > flag might be nice). > > git rm actually had a documented --cached flag now, and git rm > gives an error message pointing to it in the case where it would lose > data and --force is not provided. > > > A single term for cache and index should be decided upon. > > +1 on this. > > I find "staging area" the most explicit wording for users, but I say > that as a non-native english speaker. > > Unfortunately, it's not only a matter of documentation. Renaming "git > diff --cached" to "git diff --staged" would cause backward > compatibility problems for example. Not only that, but also, it would hide the fact that --cached and --index have a different meaning. See http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121201719116766&w=2 Mike -- 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
