Re: Index area concept and blowing it up

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 29, 2012, 10:42 UTC
Message-ID: <4F743CB0.8050603@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <1332987064083-7416124.post@n2.nabble.com>

On 03/29/2012 04:11 AM, anjibman wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 
> My first question is where is this index actually in Git. Is that a some
> folder or some location?
> 
> Second, how really Git keep information about index?
> 
> Third, in git community book it says " If you blow the index away entirely,
> you generally haven't lost any information as long as you have the name of
> the tree that it described". I didn't get this statement can any one explain
> this in simple words.
> 
> And finally why git add is used for both adding untrack file as well as to
> move file to stage area? Is there any particular reason for this?
>

index = staging area. committing = creating a commit object out of the staging area.

When a book talks about "move file to staging area", it really means "add to the set of files we're about to create a commit object from".

That might help clear things up.

However; Your questions all seem rather technical, but you don't strike me as a programmer yourself. If you give us the reason behind your questions, it'll almost certainly be easier for us to answer them in a way that's useful to you while wasting the minimum amount of our time.

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