This reverts commit
4c81c213a479e4aae0653a56ad6e8db5c31f019c.
Although --cached and --index are confusing wording, the use of
word --cached for git-diff is consistent with git-apply. It means
"work with index without looking at the working tree".
We should probably come up with better wording for --cached, if
somebody wants to deprecate it. But making --index and --cached
synonyms for diff while leaving them mean different things for
apply is no good.
* When one <tree-ish> is given, the working tree and the named
tree are compared, using `git-diff-index`. The option
- `--index` can be given to compare the index file and
+ `--cached` can be given to compare the index file and
the named tree.
- `--cached` is a deprecated alias for `--index`. It's use is
- discouraged.
* When two <tree-ish>s are given, these two trees are compared
using `git-diff-tree`.
+
------------
$ git diff <1>
-$ git diff --index <2>
+$ git diff --cached <2>
$ git diff HEAD <3>
------------
+
int cached = 0;
while (1 < argc) {
const char *arg = argv[1];
- if (!strcmp(arg, "--index") || !strcmp(arg, "--cached"))
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached"))
cached = 1;
else
usage(builtin_diff_usage);