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Git staging area or Git index is a list of files that will go to the next commit. Use this tag for questions about problems and operations with the staging area.

The staging area is a file, generally contained in your Git directory, that stores information about what will go into your next commit. It’s sometimes referred to as the “index”, but it’s also common to refer to it as the staging area. (from Pro Git)

Files are staged (indexed) with , or and removed from stage with . Actual contents of the staging area can be shown with .

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VSCode deleting staged commits

I have been working on a project for a week and a half now, went to commit my changes and this message popped up: Warning message: I selected "Yes". After which VSCode seemed to have deleted all my files that were added to the branch I was working…
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What is the precise definition of "Stage / Staging" in Computer Science / Engineering?

I am starting in Data Science and I come from math/stats/economics. I am very used to precise definitions even if it means going a bit deeper into the theory to explain something as simple as a function. I tried to look for precise definitions of…
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Can I recover staged changes after checkout?

Recently, I staged many changes in over 100 files. Then, unfortunately, I did a checkout of a previous commit. After the checkout all my changes are gone and not visible anymore (I'm using Fork to work with git). Are my changes really lost or can I…
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Source Control in VSCODE is not showing my changes to be added to staged state

I have an issue similar to one reported here but I am not able to solve it. I am not able to add a comment on that post because my reputations are low. I uninstalled VScode and removed the ".vscode" folder from Appdata folder. Also searched my C…
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Simple command to stage all files that were renamed without modifications

When I rename an entire folder or do refactoring, I think it's good practice to isolate the rename operation on its own separate commit. If I mix it with other pending modifications, I'll only complicate the verification of the commit. So the commit…
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How to automatically stage all Intellj Idea files?

I'm not sure why, and I may have disabled this by default by accident, but whenever I create a new file, it appears in 'red' since it is not staged on Intellij. How do I automatically stage the files instead of going into Bash?
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cannot add file to stage with git with `git add .`: zsh enters a text editor mode

In my home directory I'm trying to move files not staged to commit to staged as well as track new file. When entering git add ., instead of staging the file, the cursor goes down one line but no command is executed. (as show below where | is the…
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Problem with applying git filters to override changes to certain lines in a file

I have a git repository with the following contents in the repository's root directory: .git .gitattributes .gitconfig gitfilters.py MyFile.txt I want to add a filter that overrides any changes made to certain lines in MyFile.txt whose…
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How to undo 'git add -A' and 'git init', but still keep subfolders in Git?

I mistakenly ran 'git init' followed by 'git add -A' on a main folder (named "workspace"). I intended to 'cd' down into a new project folder (named "authentication") before running these commands. The issue is, this main folder "workspace" already…
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Jenkins / groove - Dynamic stage showing all stages as failed

Im readind a shell script file /tmp/cmd_list.sh with groove script and creating a dynamic stage to build. The content of /tmp/cmd_list.sh is: ls pwd aaaaaa who Only "aaaaaa" mut fail to execute (exit code 127). My problem is, all stages are…
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Git attempting to stage 5000+ documents **on Windows**

I have the same problem as this one but I'm on Windows. I searched everywhere to fint a .git (not only in Windows) but nothing. Not even in projects where I did git init (via the terminal of VS code). I suppose that's why I get this error. Because…
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Commit and Push in eclipse commits entire file as changed

I have started to use the Git staging in "Eclipse Jee Oxygen". Everytime I make a small change to a file(fix a bug), I have to commit and push. But in git, the entire file is shown to have changed. Why is this happening? This confuses other people…
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SourceTree / git add - Fail to stage modified files

I use SourceTree daily and never had such issue. But today I did some minor change and now I ended up having this issue: What I changed today? I added p4Merge as merge tool and diff tool in my git config. Then I changed my mind and deleted entries…
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Edit the changes to be committed

I have some changes to be committed in one file, already added (but not committed). The file has other changes in the current directory, which are not to be committed. But I need to edit some of the changes that are about to be committed, before I…
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Why use a staging area in Git?

I am new to Git, and would like to know where it would be useful to use a staging area, instead of directly committing the changed files.
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