Also known as staging area, this is where Git keeps changes made to versioned files and what it uses when it creates a new node in history graph (when you do a commit). This is also the reason why git add is so important, as it adds changes to staging area.
Questions tagged [git-index]
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Git: What is the index
From this picture, a commit is a pointer to the root tree which is a pointer to other trees and blobs. But what is a proper view of the index?
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Is it a similar tree-ish with folder structures or just a flat view of blobs?
If the index…
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How can I recover from "invalid sha1 pointer in resolve-undo" with git fsck?
I run git gc in a repository and get a fatal error:
Enumerating objects: 2382, done.
Counting objects: 100% (2382/2382), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (747/747), done.
fatal: unable to read…
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Why does git make new blobs between 'git add' commands?
So I've recently discovered the tool git cat-file and I've been playing around with it. I know that git uses blobs to store the actual content. But why does it seem to create a new blob every time I git add a change to a file, i.e. as opposed to…
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what is "stat information" in a git index?
In git documentation (like git-checkout-index http://linux.die.net/man/1/git-checkout-index ), there are references to "stat information" in the index file. What is this mysterious "stat information"?
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Why does checkout sometimes stage a file?
When I first started using Git, I found the checkout command quite confusing. However, as I adapted to Git's model of version control, it started to make sense. Now I am having to teach Git to my coworkers, and I'm trying to explain checkout simply.…
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Why is the git index file binary?
Most of the files in my Git directory are plain text files (except for the compressed loose objects and the packfiles). So I can just cat and edit files like .git/HEAD or .git/refs/heads/master and inspect the repository if it gets corrupted.
But…
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Is it possible to apply single lines from stash?
I'm looking for a way to include specific parts of stashes in stage. I'm using TIG frontend, so the method can involve some low level offset, etc. calculation. However currently I don't have any idea of what to compute.
Does someone have an idea of…
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Why does git checkout file behave like reset staged file followed by checkout unstaged file?
I've come across this statement in git documentation:
Checking out a file is similar to using git reset with a file path, except it updates the working directory instead of the…
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How to swap the content of a file in the working directory with the content of a previously staged version of this file?
Is it possible to exchange the index state of a certain file with its working tree content?
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Why does Git need to design Index /Stage?
The following image is Git flow diagram, I'm very strange why Git need to design Index /Stage.
You know the communication between Repository and Workspace is local, it's easy to commit or rollback between Repository and Workspace.
Why does Git need…
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Show files that are in Git's index and changed in the working copy
I have a Git pre-commit hook which strips whitespace and leaves the modified files in the working copy, so that it doesn't stomp on a partial add like git add -p.
If I commit one file out of many changed, and whitespace is corrected, I then have two…
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git - revert update-index/ignored file so I can change branch?
I was trying to add an error log to my .gitignore file, and somewhere along the way read that I had to specifically untrack the file after adding it to .gitignore. Somehow, I wound up using this to do so:
git update-index --assume-unchanged…
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How to start tracking directories/files again which were removed from git index?
Using below command i removed few directories from git index:
git rm -r --cached
Now how can i add those untracked directories to git index again?
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What is GIT Staging and Difference between Add To Index and Add To GIT Index?
I am using GibHub private repository. I don't have enough knowledge about it.
What is Git Staging ? what is the purpose of Git Staging ?
When to use Git Staging ?
I found two different options to add file in Git Staging.
Project Explorer --> Team…
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I ran git update-index --assume-unchanged and now want to get the list of files?
I temporarily wanted to get rid of some files for a certain commit and ran: git update-index --assume-unchanged file_name on a bunch of files.
Then I closed my terminal, is there anyway of getting back the names of files that I ran the git…
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