From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: longphant <longphant@yahoo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How git detects changes during commit?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:54:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027205441.GA8242@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288211811436-5680208.post@n2.nabble.com>
Hi,
longphant wrote:
> 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)?
The lstat system call. See the git-update-index(1) manual for some
hints (since most high-level commands do the equivalent of
"git update-index --refresh -q" before working with the work tree).
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 20:54 UTC|newest]
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2010-10-27 20:36 How git detects changes during commit? longphant
2010-10-27 20:54 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-28 17:23 ` longphant
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