Re: Resetting working files

The 31/05/09, Aaron Gray wrote:

quoted

I still do not understand what index is.
1. is index an replica of the committed tree
2. is index only transient in that its content will be reset once
  committed?
3. or other ?

I think index is HEAD or a revision hash. Am I correct ?

HEAD is a reference to a branch name:
$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
$

The branch name is a reference to a commit:
$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
a80aad7b85fc560451e07792d64ab6cb15a39914
$

The index is what will be committed by 'git commit'.

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Nicolas Sebrecht