From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:17:20 GMT
Subject: Re: regarding "git status"
Message-ID: <86pr0zdgy7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100513T155553-871@post.gmane.org>

>>>>> "Terrence" == Terrence Brannon <schemelab@gmail.com> writes:

Terrence> In the manpage for git-status
Terrence> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says:

Terrence> "Displays paths that have differences between the index file
Terrence> and the current HEAD commit"

Terrence> but how could something be added to the index and not be
Terrence> different from the current HEAD commit? shouldnt this sentence
Terrence> say: "displays paths that have been added to the index"

The HEAD commit might have changed without changing the index via
something like "git reset --soft $sha1".  So yes, either the index or
the head might have changed, and this is reporting the differences
between them.

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