From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Terrence Brannon <schemelab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding "git status"
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:20:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtyqbc28f.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100513T155553-871@post.gmane.org> (Terrence Brannon's message of "Thu\, 13 May 2010 13\:56\:06 +0000 \(UTC\)")
Terrence Brannon <schemelab@gmail.com> writes:
> In the manpage for git-status
> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says:
>
> "Displays paths that have differences between the index file and the current
> HEAD commit"
>
> but how could something be added to the index and not be different from the
> current HEAD commit?
The index doesn't contain the _differences_ between what you're about
to commit and HEAD, it contains _all_ the content you're going to
commit, i.e. if you have no new stuff to commit, it contains the same
thing as HEAD (in a slightly different form: HEAD uses just the object
database, while .git/index is roughly an array of files).
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-13 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 13:56 regarding "git status" Terrence Brannon
2010-05-13 14:17 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-05-13 14:20 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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