From: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 19:31:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Resetting working files
Message-ID: <34D6982455BA4A7E9F5D2D467DC4A55C@HPLAPTOP>
In-Reply-To: <20090531173932.GA13856@vidovic>

> The 31/05/09, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> > I still do not understand what index is.
>> > 1. is index an replica of the committed tree
>> > 2. is index only transient in that its content will be reset once
>> > committed?
>> > 3. or other ?
>>
>> I think index is HEAD or a revision hash. Am I correct ?
>
> HEAD is a reference to a branch name:
> $ cat .git/HEAD
> ref: refs/heads/master
> $
>
> The branch name is a reference to a commit:
> $ cat .git/refs/heads/master
> a80aad7b85fc560451e07792d64ab6cb15a39914
> $
>
> The index is what will be committed by 'git commit'.

Obviously alot more to learn about GIT, hopefully the O'Reilly book will 
clue me up as I am still getting problems with using GIT properly.

Thanks Nicolas,

Aaron