Re: Call Me Gitless

"Alexander E Genaud" [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks for pointing me to 'git-rm --cached'.

quoted

The changes are "cached" in the "Index". But I wouldn't name
the "Index" really a "Cache" because it is a lot more. All
comments for --cached in the manpages mention the Index
mechanism. Additionally there is a more detailed introduction
to the Index in section 7 (Git concepts) of the Git User's
Manual

Funny the first example shows the contents of the index using a '--stage' flag.

$ git ls-files --stage

For ls-files, --cached mode is the default so you did not even have to say
it in your example.

With the option --stage, you are specifying how that --cached state is
shown.  Normally we do not show the object name nor their merge stages,
but we do when you give the --stage option.

Also look at the end of gitcli(7) documentation.