From: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:31:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Git terminology: remote, add, track, stage, etc.
Message-ID: <968F09BD-2B2D-44C4-9C0F-BF7BD20041F0@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1287660007.24161.10.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>


On 21 Oct 2010, at 13:20, Drew Northup wrote:

> Ok, so what will "git stage" do when a change of a file is already
> staged and it is executed again (on new changes)?

Presumably what it already does: nothing. But one could argue that the more public-relations minded command “git stage” should give better feedback. Like so:

> $ git commit 
> $ ... edit A.txt ...
> $ git stage B.txt
> git stage: Did nothing. No uncommitted changes to stage in B.txt.
> $ git stage A.txt
> $ git stage A.txt
> git stage: Did nothing. Changes in A.txt already staged. Use `git diff --staged A.txt` to see them.