Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:17 PM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> - --index has a different meaning in git-apply. I don't have a good >> suggestion except "yeah we have two different worlds now, the old >> and the new one" > > I will rename --index to --staged to avoid this. It is already used as > synonym for --cached in git-diff. I will also add --staged as synonym > to "git rm" so that "git status" can consistently advise "git <verb> > --staged" where verb is either restore or rm.
Does "restore --index" (now "--staged") work the same way as "--cached" aka "--staged" in git-diff? "--cached" is about affecting only what is in the index (as opposed to "--index" affecting both the index and the working tree). If it does, then calling it "--cached" aka "--staged" does make more sense than calling it "--index", I would think. Otherwise, such a rename does not buy us much.
