The 31/05/09, Aaron Gray wrote: > > I still do not understand what index is. > > 1. is index an replica of the committed tree > > 2. is index only transient in that its content will be reset once > > committed? > > 3. or other ? > > I think index is HEAD or a revision hash. Am I correct ? HEAD is a reference to a branch name: $ cat .git/HEAD ref: refs/heads/master $ The branch name is a reference to a commit: $ cat .git/refs/heads/master a80aad7b85fc560451e07792d64ab6cb15a39914 $ The index is what will be committed by 'git commit'. -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html