>From: egit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:egit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Remy Suen
>Sent: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 14:33
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Benjamin Muskalla
<bmuskalla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I just stumbled across the two entrys in the Compare With menu. What
>>should be the difference between comparing against HEAD and comparing
>> against the Index?
> HEAD means what's in the [current] branch.
> The index is what's in the index., whatever you've added to the staging
area (but uncommitted). If there's nothing in the staging area then it's just
going to compare with HEAD I believe.
>> As far as I understand it, we could get rid of the Compare with Index
>> action. Additionally, I think we should not expose implementation
>> details (like the Index) to the user.
> I disagree. The index is one of Git's strengths. Being able to selectively
stage and commit changes is extremely helpful. Of course, that isn't really
exposed completely/properly in EGit, but anyway...
I fully agree with what Remy said. We
should restart our endeavour to add a staging view to EGit. There still is the
proposal of Remy in the pipeline: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,716.
Additionally we should support the commit of staged changes (bugs 309359, 310128).
We should also add a Replace with ->
HEAD
Stefan
