Re: Global .git directory

From: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
Date: Apr 28, 2010, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004282148310.26569@bbs.intern>
In-Reply-To: <4BD7D412.5020603@dbservice.com>

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Tomas Carnecky wrote:

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> On 4/28/10 7:33 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> BTW: The tutorial on http://git-scm.com/ is IHMO wrong:
>> git --version
>> git version 1.6.2.5
>> git commit -m 'Explain what I changed'
>> =>
>> git commit -a -m 'Explain what I changed'
>> => Otherwise changed files are not committed, only added ones.
>> => Therefore that are 2 commit ...
>
> If you mean the snippets right on the front page, it assumes that you add all 
> edited files.

OK, I assumed that the tutorial at http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html when switching from svn to git is correct, but it isn't. I unterstand now, that git is basically a patch management system where you add or remove (rm) files to a patch/commit set (adding in svn means adding or removing a file). So this is very different from svn and other SCM systems.

Homepage: git add (files) => git add (all edited and added files) would clarify this, too.

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>> BTW2:
>> Why is it necessary to do:
>> # Displays only changed files
>> git diff
>> # Displays only added files
>> git diff --cached
>> 
>> I would like to have a full diff of my changes:
>> git diff -a
>> (or better "git diff -a" should be the default behaviour, I think that's
>> very confusing for new users)
>
> What are 'your' changes? Between HEAD and the working tree (aka. git diff 
> HEAD)?

git diff HEAD # no output.

Ciao, Gerhard