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Re: Suggestions to make git easier to understand

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 12, 2011, 22:26 UTC
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<20110812222626.GA7079@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:16:27PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> > http://raflabs.com/blogs/silence-is-foo/2011/04/07/staging-area-index-cache-git/
> >
> > I thought it made some good points about git being kinda confusing,
> > for example sentences like "Changed but not updated" in git status
> > could use a better sentence like "Changed but not in the index".
> 
> Sounds reasonable (well, with some more precise wording to reflect
> that this means "changed but not all changes are reflected in the
> index").

Didn't we fix this already in 8009d83 (Better "Changed but not updated" message in git-status, 2010-11-02)? Since v1.7.4, "git status" has "Changes not staged for commit".

-Peff
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  1. Philippe VaucherAug 11, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederAug 11, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederAug 11, 2011
  5. Jeff KingAug 12, 2011
  6. Philippe VaucherAug 15, 2011

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