Say you check out a directory of 100 files. You edit 5 of the files, and you go to commit the directory back. How does git know which of the 100 files were modified (not all of them were)? -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/How-git-detects-changes-during-commit-tp5680208p5680208.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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