# git not tracking changes 3 messages from 2007-01-02 to 2007-01-02. Participants: Deepak Barua, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6190 ## Deepak Barua, 2007-01-02 05:52 Subject: git not tracking changes Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b5a19cd20701012152n4f496198h93cab1b9b85a9a45%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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 dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ vi config.h dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git commit nothing to commit dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ git commit nothing to commit dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ ls ABOUT-NLS autogen.sh config.h configure debian INSTALL Makefile.lib SITES TODO acinclude.m4 BUGS config.h.in configure.in doc Makefile NEWS src Unicode aclocal.m4 ChangeLog config.log contrib features.conf Makefile.config po test AUTHORS config config.status COPYING features.log Makefile.config.in README THANKS dep@zion:~/programs/elinks/elinks-0.11-20061220$ I am working on the hooks part modifying the perl script in the same in the pre-commit hook but that is not related to this ... what could be the problem...? Also another file which you can see in the directory called "NEWS" is being taken in to consideration... the hook "pre-commit" is enabled and am adding a spell checker to it... Regards Deepak -- Code Code Code Away ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-01-02 05:59 Subject: Re: git not tracking changes Message-ID: <20070102055937.GD27690@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070102055937.GD27690%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Deepak Barua 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. ``` ## Deepak Barua, 2007-01-02 09:54 Subject: Re: git not tracking changes Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b5a19cd20701020154w63fd4c4s46a6cb3c6f50ce5a%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20070102055937.GD27690@spearce.org> ``` Thank you shawn. Regards Deepak On 1/2/07, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Deepak Barua 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. > -- Code Code Code Away ```