From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:06:26 GMT
Subject: Re: What exactly does 'needs update' mean?
Message-ID: <7vk4manyql.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C9D8643.1040001@workspacewhiz.com>

Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:

>  I've come to accept the term 'needs update' when I've forgotten to
> stash or commit before certain Git operations.  However, I got
> cornered today and was asked to explain what it means.  I had to admit
> I don't know.

It came from "you need to run update-index on that path, as you have local
modification in the working tree".