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Subject: How git detects changes during commit?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Say you check out a directory of 100 files. You edit 5 of the files, and you
go to commit the directory back. How does git know which of the 100 files
were modified (not all of them were)?
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