From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Robin Messer <robin.messer@altran.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Minor correction to Git book
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:51:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130508105141.GH25912@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71E08C07CB3C444098033ABD69925159145BB1DDE1@BATH-EXCMS.praxis.local>
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Robin Messer wrote:
> I'm just learning Git so I don't yet know how to submit this
> as a patch, but I'm reading the Git Book to get myself started
> and I think there is a mistake on the page at:
>
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository
>
> It says: "For another example, if you stage the benchmarks.rb file and
> then edit it, you can use git diff to see the changes in the file that
> are staged and the changes that are unstaged:"
>
> I believe this should say "git status" rather than "git diff".
I think the text is correct as it stands. "git status" shows you that
there are changes that are staged and unstaged, "git diff" (and "git
diff --cached") shows you what those changes are.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-08 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-08 10:24 Minor correction to Git book Robin Messer
2013-05-08 10:51 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-05-08 11:01 ` Robin Messer
2013-05-08 11:08 ` John Keeping
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