Re: regarding "git status"

Terrence Brannon [off-list ref] 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).

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Matthieu Moy
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