From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Terrence Brannon <schemelab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding "git status"
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 07:17:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pr0zdgy7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100513T155553-871@post.gmane.org> (Terrence Brannon's message of "Thu, 13 May 2010 13:56:06 +0000 (UTC)")
>>>>> "Terrence" == Terrence Brannon <schemelab@gmail.com> writes:
Terrence> In the manpage for git-status
Terrence> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says:
Terrence> "Displays paths that have differences between the index file
Terrence> and the current HEAD commit"
Terrence> but how could something be added to the index and not be
Terrence> different from the current HEAD commit? shouldnt this sentence
Terrence> say: "displays paths that have been added to the index"
The HEAD commit might have changed without changing the index via
something like "git reset --soft $sha1". So yes, either the index or
the head might have changed, and this is reporting the differences
between them.
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2010-05-13 13:56 regarding "git status" Terrence Brannon
2010-05-13 14:17 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2010-05-13 14:20 ` Matthieu Moy
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