On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:44:05 -0500 John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
It should be noted that the index file has a complicated not-human-readable binary format, and is not for direct intervention by the user. It should be treated as a completely opaque data and manipulated by the Git tools exclusively. > The staging area is also called the git index. This is probably > better than I am at explaining: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4084921/what-does-the-git-index-exactly-contain > > but basically the index is in the .git/index directory. Normally this > is in the working directory of the project. But you can specify a > different location using various GIT_ prefixed environment variables. [...] > > I wonder where is stored that staging area on our machines? > > Is it in /tmp? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
