Re: Global .git directory

[Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>]

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Tomas Carnecky wrote:

> On 4/28/10 7:33 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> BTW: The tutorial on http://git-scm.com/ is IHMO wrong:
>> git --version
>> git version 1.6.2.5
>> git commit -m 'Explain what I changed'
>> =>
>> git commit -a -m 'Explain what I changed'
>> => Otherwise changed files are not committed, only added ones.
>> => Therefore that are 2 commit ...
>
> If you mean the snippets right on the front page, it assumes that you add all 
> edited files.

OK, I assumed that the tutorial at
http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
when switching from svn to git is correct, but it isn't. I unterstand now, 
that git is basically a patch management system where you add or remove 
(rm) files to a patch/commit set (adding in svn means adding or removing 
a file). So this is very different from svn and other SCM systems.

Homepage:
git add (files)
=>
git add (all edited and added files)
would clarify this, too.

>> BTW2:
>> Why is it necessary to do:
>> # Displays only changed files
>> git diff
>> # Displays only added files
>> git diff --cached
>> 
>> I would like to have a full diff of my changes:
>> git diff -a
>> (or better "git diff -a" should be the default behaviour, I think that's
>> very confusing for new users)
>
> What are 'your' changes? Between HEAD and the working tree (aka. git diff 
> HEAD)?

git diff HEAD
# no output.

Ciao,
Gerhard