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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:10:35 -0500
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Hi!

Jon Forrest wrote:

> The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
> file you didn=E2=80=99t 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