Re: [git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-24 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Konstantin Khomoutov" On Mon, 23 May 2016 17:33:49 -0700 Michael wrote: [...] >> The Index is also commonly called the *staging area* when viewed >> from an outward facing perspective (i.e. what do users do), with >> index being

Re: [git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-24 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Mon, 23 May 2016 17:33:49 -0700 Michael wrote: [...] > >> The Index is also commonly called the *staging area* when viewed > >> from an outward facing perspective (i.e. what do users do), with > >> index being more commonly used for an inward facing perspective > >> (e.g.

Re: [git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-23 Thread Michael
On 2016-05-23, at 8:53 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > "Philip Oakley" writes: >> +1 for the nice explanation. > > Thanks! > >> The Index is also commonly called the *staging area* when viewed from an >> outward facing perspective (i.e. what do users

Re: [git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-23 Thread Dale R. Worley
"Philip Oakley" writes: > +1 for the nice explanation. Thanks! > The Index is also commonly called the *staging area* when viewed from an > outward facing perspective (i.e. what do users do), with index being more > commonly used for an inward facing perspective (e.g.

Re: [git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-21 Thread Philip Oakley
- Original Message - From: "Dale R. Worley" <wor...@alum.mit.edu> To: <git-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [git-users] Git life cycle Sharan Basappa <sharan.basa...@gmail.com> writes: Git mentions that state of the f

[git-users] Git life cycle

2016-05-20 Thread Sharan Basappa
Folks, Git mentions that state of the file as untracked, unmodified, modified and staged. As I understand untracked files are not yet in the respository. unmodified and modified is understood but what action results in a file being in staged state? is it git add or git commit? Thanks, --