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From: "Aaron Gray" <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>
To: "Nicolas Sebrecht" <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Cc: "Peter Baumann" <waste.manager@gmx.de>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Resetting working files
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:31:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34D6982455BA4A7E9F5D2D467DC4A55C@HPLAPTOP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090531173932.GA13856@vidovic

> 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'.

Obviously alot more to learn about GIT, hopefully the O'Reilly book will 
clue me up as I am still getting problems with using GIT properly.

Thanks Nicolas,

Aaron

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-31 19:32 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
2009-05-31 19:31           ` Aaron Gray [this message]
2009-05-31 21:30           ` Alex Riesen

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