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From: Pierre-François CLEMENT
To: git-users@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [git-users] Re: git reset with staged changes
Le mercredi 4 juin 2014 16:28:27 UTC+2, Dale Worley a écrit :
Yeah, but what one *feels* is the definition of the word is not
relevant.
It somehow is IMO, as I got that feeling from my day-to-day use of git and
from reading its manual, so it might be the symptoma of some incoherences
across the tool's usage and/or definitions.
Le mercredi 4 juin 2014 16:28:27 UTC+2, Dale Worley a écrit :
The online book is particularly treacherous:
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository
Remember that each file in your working directory can be in one of
two states: tracked or untracked. Tracked files are files that
were in the last snapshot; they can be unmodified, modified, or
staged. Untracked files are everything else — any files in your
working directory that were not in your last snapshot and are not
in your staging area.
If you read carefully, you'll note that it is self-contradictory: His
definition of tracked excludes staged-but-not-in-the-head-commit files
but his definition of untracked also excludes those files.
It is a bit self-contradictory, but only in the listing of what such files
can be. Apart from that, the definition "Tracked files are files that were in
the last snapshot [...]. Untracked files are everything else" is pretty clear,
and describes exactly my understanding of such files. So, to answer André's
original question, I think might indeed be either a bug or a missing feature.
I think I'm gonna mail g...@vger.kernel.org (the "official" mailing list) to
see what they think about it. Would it be wrong to reply to this conversation
with a summary of it, CC'ed to g...@vger.kernel.org? I'm not quite confident
with using public mailing lists just yet.
There's been a recent thread about almost the same subject on the git mailing
list.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/250500
It may be worth piggy-backing on that.
Don't forget the git list requires pure plain text emails.
(This thread is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/27_FxIV_100
if you need that reference;-)
Philip
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