Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking

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On 10/3/2011 6:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi!

Thanks for the quick reply.

Jon Forrest wrote:

The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
file you didn’t have in the previous snapshot (commit)".

Yep, that's a bug in the Pro Git book.  "Untracked" means "not in
the index", nothing more, nothing less.

But your definition doesn't include files that
have been committed. In the following trivial case
in a new git repository

cp /etc/passwd x
git add x
git commit -m"fooling around"

is "x" tracked? Your definition says it isn't
but "git status" makes me think it is.

Sorry to be so pedantic.

Jon
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