Hi, On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, David Symonds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hmm. I wonder if it would make it more sense to make the "official" > > name --staged, and leave --cached forever as a synonym. If the goal is > > giving sane names to end users, then we should probably advertise the > > sane ones. > > I agree. If there's some consensus, I can make that shift, keeping > --cached as a backward-compatibility synonym. Yes, I would like that, too. However, note that we have to hash out what to do about the convention that --cached traditionally means that only the staging area (formerly known as "the index") is affected, while --index means that the command touches the working directory, too. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
