Re: git not tracking changes

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 2, 2007, 05:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20070102055937.GD27690@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <b5a19cd20701012152n4f496198h93cab1b9b85a9a45@mail.gmail.com>

Deepak Barua <dbbarua@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>    When i do a git add of a config.h file then make some changes and
> then do git commit it does not reflect the changes..
> eg
> dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git add config.h

Here you told Git to take the current contents of config.h and stage it into the index. That content will be in the next commit.

> dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ vi config.h

Then you modify it. Git doesn't know about those changes to config.h, nor does it care at this point.

> dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git commit
> nothing to commit

This is occuring because the content staged in the index does not differ from the content in HEAD (the last commit on this branch). You need to run `git add config.h` again now that you have modified it to restage the modified file.

Basically I'm assuming that when you ran `git add config.h` the first time the content must have matched HEAD, which meant you didn't actually stage anything.

-- 
Shawn.