Re: git not tracking changes

> Deepak Barua <dbbarua@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    When i do a git add of a config.h file then make some changes and
> > then do git commit it does not reflect the changes..
> > eg
> > dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git add config.h
>
> Here you told Git to take the current contents of config.h and
> stage it into the index.  That content will be in the next
> commit.
>
> > dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ vi config.h
>
> Then you modify it.  Git doesn't know about those changes to
> config.h, nor does it care at this point.
>
> > dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git commit
> > nothing to commit
>
> This is occuring because the content staged in the index does not
> differ from the content in HEAD (the last commit on this branch).
> You need to run `git add config.h` again now that you have modified
> it to restage the modified file.
>
> Basically I'm assuming that when you ran `git add config.h` the
> first time the content must have matched HEAD, which meant you
> didn't actually stage anything.
>
> --
> Shawn.
>