Hi, I'm trying to collect all operations related to index from user perspective and corresponding commands. The list may be put to git wiki if people think it can help newbies: update file content to index: git update-index file add a file to index: git add file delete a file from index: git update-index --remove --force-remove (or remove that file in workdir and do git update-index --remove) read a tree to index: git read-tree treeish, git reset treeish read a file from a tree to index: git ls-tree treeish file|git update-index --index-info --stdin copy a file from index to workdir: git checkout-index file refresh index: git update-index --refresh copy entire index to workdir: git checkout-index output a file from index to stdout: ?? (is there a command for this?) list files in index: git ls-files compare index and workdir file listing: git ls-files (with lots of options here) diff between workdir and index: git diff diff between index and a tree: git diff --cached treeish Am I missing any operation here? -- Duy - 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