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From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Weird behaviour of git status
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:17:20 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:44, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> "git status" shows you what would be committed if you ran "git commit" with
> the same parameters. So in your example, the output for "git status ." is
> exactly as you would expect.
>
> This is stated in the man page.

This is one of the first things I stumbled on when I started using
git. I often times wanted to do "git status -- pathspec" to see only
what changed in a certain directory, rather than what would be
committed if only the contents of that directory is committed.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier