From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
To: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Resetting working files
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 19:39:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090531173932.GA13856@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9719867c0905310950x153db8efw179a8a10ac3f4640@mail.gmail.com>
The 31/05/09, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > I still do not understand what index is.
> > 1. is index an replica of the committed tree
> > 2. is index only transient in that its content will be reset once
> > committed?
> > 3. or other ?
>
> I think index is HEAD or a revision hash. Am I correct ?
HEAD is a reference to a branch name:
$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
$
The branch name is a reference to a commit:
$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
a80aad7b85fc560451e07792d64ab6cb15a39914
$
The index is what will be committed by 'git commit'.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 13:09 Resetting working files Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 15:00 ` Dirk Süsserott
2009-05-31 15:57 ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 16:25 ` Peter Baumann
[not found] ` <20090531163225.GE3674@debian.b2j>
2009-05-31 16:50 ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 17:39 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2009-05-31 19:31 ` Aaron Gray
2009-05-31 21:30 ` Alex Riesen
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