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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mysterious junk in file.... "not commited yet"
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:13:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <n2g32541b131004051213q17f9e948m5f02a3575fb0f1f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p2y26ae428a1004051203jbb7c838eh8de0cb5f6ae1dcb1@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
>> You might have 'git add'ed the changed line.  Try this:
>>
>>   git checkout HEAD -- <filename>
>
> Hmmm... fixed. I've never even heard of 'git add' before. Why is this
> different to plain old 'checkout' without the HEAD?
>
> Anyway... thanks. Day saved :)

That ends up being a very long story.  You should probably read about
"staging" files in git in a git tutorial somewhere. :)

Glad I could help.

Have fun,

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-05 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-05 18:13 Mysterious junk in file.... "not commited yet" Howard Miller
2010-04-05 18:52 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-04-05 19:03   ` Howard Miller
2010-04-05 19:13     ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-04-05 19:24     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-05 19:29       ` Howard Miller

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