From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:14:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8A5DF0.6040003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111004011035.GA13836@elie>
On 10/3/2011 6:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply.
> 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.
But your definition doesn't include files that
have been committed. In the following trivial case
in a new git repository
cp /etc/passwd x
git add x
git commit -m"fooling around"
is "x" tracked? Your definition says it isn't
but "git status" makes me think it is.
Sorry to be so pedantic.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 1:16 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
2011-10-04 1:14 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
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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