From: Sebastian Schuberth Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 20:17:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ls-files: Add eol diagnostics Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Any I find it a bit confusing to refer to the index where, as e.g. for >> a freshly cloned repo the index should be empty, > > No it is not. The index is a complete snapshot of your working tree. > When you have no uncommited staged changes, the index contains all files > that are in HEAD. Most commands show you _changes_ in the index (wrt > HEAD or wrt the working tree), but the index itself contain all files. Thanks for the info. > At stage 4), you really want to see the content of the index, because > your HEAD is still broken. Ok, I'm convinced. Thanks again! -- Sebastian Schuberth