"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Speaking just for myself, I would find this all a lot less confusing > if "staged" were a refspec of some sort, not an option at all. > > git diff HEAD..STAGED > git diff STAGED..WORKTREE > git grep pattern STAGED HEAD sillybranch WORKTREE ^ignorebranch -- > path/to/files Another thing that seems strange to me is that the operation of diffing HEAD..STAGED is so verbose -- currently it's "git diff --cached", with no short option. Surely this is very common operation... I rather often want to see details of what's staged for commit... -Miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin] -- 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