From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anjibman Subject: Index area concept and blowing it up Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1332987064083-7416124.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 29 04:11:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SD4pT-0003DY-Ju for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:11:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932903Ab2C2CLG (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:11:06 -0400 Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:51640 "EHLO sam.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932696Ab2C2CLE (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:11:04 -0400 Received: from jim.nabble.com ([192.168.236.80]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SD4pM-0003NR-4U for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:11:04 -0700 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi All, My first question is where is this index actually in Git. Is that a some folder or some location? Second, how really Git keep information about index? Third, in git community book it says " If you blow the index away entirely, you generally haven't lost any information as long as you have the name of the tree that it described". I didn't get this statement can any one explain this in simple words. And finally why git add is used for both adding untrack file as well as to move file to stage area? Is there any particular reason for this? Thanks, Anjib -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Index-area-concept-and-blowing-it-up-tp7416124p7416124.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.