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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?

  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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