On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:29:35AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think you guys are barking up a wrong tree. > > The staged state, the work tree state and the committed states are three > conceptually different things. Making them stand out as distinct entities > at the UI level is a _good thing_. I'm not sure I agree. They _are_ different things, but in the case of diff, you are really treating each of them like a tree (which makes range operators a little silly, but then that is a silliness already present in "git diff tree1..tree2"). But again, I would not be convinced this is a good direction until I saw: - the actual design, especially to what degree any ugliness is exposed when we realize that they _aren't_ trees. IOW, how badly does this abstraction leak? - numbers showing that it isn't going to perform significantly worse And I'm still not volunteering to work on it, so somebody else will have to come up with those things. ;) -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
