From: Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com>
To: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a few beginner git questions
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:23:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15b345f1003061823u2d7edeeo25229f0a32456f45@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306070533.GL2480@ece.pdx.edu>
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Tait <git.git@t41t.com> wrote:
>> 1. When do you commit changes and when do you stage changes? Or maybe
>> more to the point, what's the difference between doing "stage, commit,
>> stage, commit" and "stage, stage, commit"?
>
> Staging changes is a prerequisite to committing them. With stage, commit,
> stage, commit you will have two commits in history. With stage, stage,
> commit you will have only one commit in history. What you stage (or
> neglect to stage) is not part of recorded history in the repository. What
> you commit, is.
What's the difference, then, between doing "stage, stage, commit" as
opposed to "stage, commit"? Why not just make all commits stage
automatically?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-07 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 6:42 a few beginner git questions Thomas Anderson
2010-03-06 7:01 ` Allan Wind
2010-03-06 7:05 ` Tait
2010-03-07 2:23 ` Thomas Anderson [this message]
2010-03-07 9:08 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-03-07 5:02 ` Thomas Anderson
2010-03-07 8:50 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-03-08 18:55 ` Tait
2010-03-07 9:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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