On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Any I find it a bit confusing to refer to the index where, as e.g. for >> a freshly cloned repo the index should be empty, > > No it is not. The index is a complete snapshot of your working tree. > When you have no uncommited staged changes, the index contains all files > that are in HEAD. Most commands show you _changes_ in the index (wrt > HEAD or wrt the working tree), but the index itself contain all files. Thanks for the info. > At stage 4), you really want to see the content of the index, because > your HEAD is still broken. Ok, I'm convinced. Thanks again! -- Sebastian Schuberth -- 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