Terrence Brannon <schemelab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In the manpage for git-status > (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html) it says: > > "Displays paths that have differences between the index file and the current > HEAD commit" > > but how could something be added to the index and not be different from the > current HEAD commit? The index doesn't contain the _differences_ between what you're about to commit and HEAD, it contains _all_ the content you're going to commit, i.e. if you have no new stuff to commit, it contains the same thing as HEAD (in a slightly different form: HEAD uses just the object database, while .git/index is roughly an array of files). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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