hide diff after git add

[logig]

Why not hide the diff after git add , just like the acting of git-bash ? Has config item for this ?

[logig]

Got it !

// GitGutter Settings - User

{
	"compare_against": ""
}

Just set "compare_against" to empty, it is strongly recommended to make this default.

[r-stein]

May be a good idea to add a "Compare Against: Index" command

[deathaxe]

@r-stein : Already done 3 months ago. But I called it "Compare against Staging Area" with "compare_against": "CACHED" as setting. I even declared it the default.

The reason I haven't published it were several other changes it relied on which require git 2.12.0

What @logig describes works by luck here since GitGutter uses git cat-file to read the content from the tree which uses empty object_id to indicate the staging area.

So implementing would be easy.

[logig]

I don't know, I just feel it like a "git diff xxx" command in git-bash. But this do not work fully, I have to reopen the file or it will not work. @deathaxe

[deathaxe]

The only issue with just leaving the object_id empty to get the file content from staging area is, We never know when it changes and thus it won't be updated after a second git add call. File content is read from git database only, if the commit hash changed. So this feature again needs git status or functions, which seem not available on older git versions.

[deathaxe]

The feature request and possible solutions to handle the staging area as compare target are discussed in #118 with same result as in this thread.

Therefore I close this issue as "duplicate".