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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:14:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8A5DF0.6040003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111004011035.GA13836@elie>

On 10/3/2011 6:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi!

Thanks for the quick reply.

> Jon Forrest wrote:
>
>> The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
>> file you didn’t have in the previous snapshot (commit)".
>
> Yep, that's a bug in the Pro Git book.  "Untracked" means "not in
> the index", nothing more, nothing less.

But your definition doesn't include files that
have been committed. In the following trivial case
in a new git repository

cp /etc/passwd x
git add x
git commit -m"fooling around"

is "x" tracked? Your definition says it isn't
but "git status" makes me think it is.

Sorry to be so pedantic.

Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04  0:53 A Basic Git Question About File Tracking Jon Forrest
2011-10-04  1:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-04  1:14   ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2011-10-04  1:22     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-09  0:08       ` Jon Forrest
2011-10-09  1:17         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-09  2:42           ` A Basic Git Question About File Tracking [ANSWERED] Jon Forrest
2011-10-09  9:37             ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-09 16:57           ` A Basic Git Question About File Tracking Scott Chacon

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