From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:10:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111004011035.GA13836@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j6dlhf$dp3$1@dough.gmane.org>
Hi!
Jon Forrest wrote:
> The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
> file you didn’t have in the previous snapshot (commit)".
Yep, that's a bug in the Pro Git book. "Untracked" means "not in
the index", nothing more, nothing less.
I believe Scott takes patches[1]. :)
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] https://github.com/progit/progit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 0:53 A Basic Git Question About File Tracking Jon Forrest
2011-10-04 1:10 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-10-04 1:14 ` Jon Forrest
2011-10-04 1:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-09 0:08 ` Jon Forrest
2011-10-09 1:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-09 2:42 ` A Basic Git Question About File Tracking [ANSWERED] Jon Forrest
2011-10-09 9:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-09 16:57 ` A Basic Git Question About File Tracking Scott Chacon
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