When I use git pull [project name] master to update my core files, I get a bunch of green plus and red minus signals under "merge made by recursive." What are these symbols and what do they mean?
Here's a screenshot:
Thank you for your help.
Asked
Active
Viewed 1,522 times
15
Martin Thoma
- 124,992
- 159
- 614
- 958
jfmercer
- 3,641
- 3
- 29
- 35
-
The answers to later duplicates of this question have fuller answers, e.g. [this one](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3340304/575530) and [this one](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13763549/575530) – dumbledad Apr 29 '16 at 07:38
1 Answers
15
That is an approximation of how many lines have changed. Pluses are for new content and minuses are for what was taken out. Modifications end up with equal amount of both. Deletions are only minuses and new files are all pluses.
Hope this helps!
Adam Dymitruk
- 124,556
- 26
- 146
- 141
-
3And you can see the same style of diff output using `git diff --stat [args]`. – Cascabel Oct 01 '11 at 04:45