Re: regarding "git status"

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"Terrence" == Terrence Brannon [off-list ref] writes:

Terrence> In the manpage for git-status
Terrence> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says:

Terrence> "Displays paths that have differences between the index file
Terrence> and the current HEAD commit"

Terrence> but how could something be added to the index and not be
Terrence> different from the current HEAD commit? shouldnt this sentence
Terrence> say: "displays paths that have been added to the index"

The HEAD commit might have changed without changing the index via
something like "git reset --soft $sha1".  So yes, either the index or
the head might have changed, and this is reporting the differences
between them.

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