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Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking

From
Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2011, 01:14 UTC
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On 10/3/2011 6:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply.
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> 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.

But your definition doesn't include files that have been committed. In the following trivial case in a new git repository

cp /etc/passwd x git add x git commit -m"fooling around"

is "x" tracked? Your definition says it isn't but "git status" makes me think it is.

Sorry to be so pedantic.
Jon
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