Re: Definition of working directory
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jaseem abid <jaseemabid@gmail.com>
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- Mar 28, 2012, 09:40 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Anjib Mulepati <anjibcs@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > So if I have a project called MyProject and inside that I have two > sub-directories dir1 and dir2. Does that mean working directory is *ALWAYS* > MyProject.
Yes. It is MyProject.
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> Also if i create some file in dir1 and do git status without git add then > it display untracked files as ../dir1/ > It doesn't display the untracked file name but after I do git add when I > did git status it does give me file under changes to be committed. Why > didn't it shows file with name as untracked in first case?
Often there will be build folders with too many unwanted files to ignore. Unless at least a single file in a directory is tracked, git will ignore the folder. This is afaik a good feature and not a problem.
PS: I am not really a git expert. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
-- Jaseem Abid +91 8891 72 43 72 S6 CSE student National Institute of Technology , Calicut.