On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:01:07AM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote: > I'm still not understanding, what it's for. > Usability? Because doing > git config --global alias.staged 'diff --cached' > is lame? You are missing some of the context, which is that we just had a big in-person debate about how the staged nomenclature is confusing. We call things "cached", "staged", and "index", depending on the command. So this is an attempt to rectify that. -Peff -- 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