From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:10:35 GMT
Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking
Message-ID: <20111004011035.GA13836@elie>
In-Reply-To: <j6dlhf$dp3$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi!

Jon Forrest wrote:

> The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
> file you didn’t have in the previous snapshot (commit)".

Yep, that's a bug in the Pro Git book.  "Untracked" means "not in
the index", nothing more, nothing less.

I believe Scott takes patches[1]. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/progit/progit