Re: Git terminology: remote, add, track, stage, etc.

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 22, 2010, 04:07 UTC
Message-ID: <buoeibi6fab.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <1287660007.24161.10.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:

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

It stages the newly updated file?

This seems entirely obvious and intuitive, far more so than "git add"...

-Miles

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