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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Git terminology: remote, add, track, stage, etc.
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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:
> Ok, so what will "git stage" do when a change of a file is already
> staged and it is executed again (on new changes)?

It stages the newly updated file?

This seems entirely obvious and intuitive, far more so than "git add"...

-Miles

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