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Re: Mysterious junk in file.... "not commited yet"

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Apr 5, 2010, 19:24 UTC
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Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> writes:
> Hmmm... fixed. I've never even heard of 'git add' before.
Hmm, maybe it's time to read the manual, then ;-).
> Why is this different to plain old 'checkout' without the HEAD?

Read about the "index" of Git, aka "staging area". It's where Git (and you) prepare commit, and "git diff" shows you the diff against it. Plain "git checkout" will read from the index, while "git checkout HEAD" takes the last commited version.

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