2014-06-10 17:27 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>: > Pierre-François CLEMENT <likeyn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 2014-06-10 1:28 GMT+02:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Pierre-François CLEMENT <likeyn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Hm, I didn't think of "git apply --index"... Makes sense for this >>>> special use, but I'm not sure about the other use cases. >>> >>> Try merging another branch that tracks a file your current branch >>> does not know about and ending up with conflicts during that merge. >>> Resetting the half-done result away must remove that new path from >>> your working tree and the index. >> >> Hm I see. Even though the documentation doesn't make it very clear >> about what happens to such files, it turns out the scenario we >> stumbled upon seems to be the special use case after all. Thanks for >> shedding some light on this :) I wonder why does git-reset's hard mode >> not always remove untracked files then? > > Because it never removes them? Git only removes files once it tracks > them. This includes the operation of removing _and_ untracking them, > like with git reset --hard. > > The only command which explicitly messes with untracked files is > git-clean. > > -- > David Kastrup Yeah sorry, I just noticed the emails on the definition of what are (un)tracked files (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/251071/focus=251151), as I didn't get them in my inbox for some reason. So staged files which aren't in HEAD are also considered tracked -- which explains it all. Someone told me that too on the "Git for human beings" Google Group, but I couldn't find a definition that backs this in the man pages (maybe the git-glossary would be a good place for it?), and the one from the Git-Scm book only confused me in thinking the opposite. Thanks for the clarification -- Pierre-François CLEMENT Application developer at Upcast Social -- 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