>>>>> "Terrence" == Terrence Brannon <schemelab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Terrence> In the manpage for git-status Terrence> (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says: Terrence> "Displays paths that have differences between the index file Terrence> and the current HEAD commit" Terrence> but how could something be added to the index and not be Terrence> different from the current HEAD commit? shouldnt this sentence Terrence> say: "displays paths that have been added to the index" The HEAD commit might have changed without changing the index via something like "git reset --soft $sha1". So yes, either the index or the head might have changed, and this is reporting the differences between them. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- 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