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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How to uncommit my last commit in Git
How can I uncommit my last commit in git?
Is it
git reset --hard HEAD
or
git reset --hard HEAD^
?
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What are the differences between "git commit" and "git push"?
In a Git tutorial I'm going through, git commit is used to store the changes you've made.
What is git push used for then?
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Git - Difference Between 'assume-unchanged' and 'skip-worktree'
I have local changes to a file that I don't want to commit to my repository. It is a configuration file for building the application on a server, but I want to build locally with different settings. Naturally, the file always shows up when I do 'git…
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Undo git update-index --assume-unchanged
I have run the following command to ignore watching/tracking a particular directory/file:
git update-index --assume-unchanged
How can I undo this, so that is watched/tracked again?
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What does the git index contain EXACTLY?
What does the Git index exactly contain, and what command can I use to view the content of the index?
Thanks for all your answers. I know that the index acts as a staging area, and what is committed is in the index rather than the working tree. I…
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"git rm --cached x" vs "git reset head -- x"?
GitRef.org - Basic:
git rm will remove entries from the
staging area. This is a bit different
from git reset HEAD which "unstages"
files. By "unstage" I mean it reverts
the staging area to what was there
before we started modifying…
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What's the use of the staging area in Git?
What is the point of git add . or git add to add it to the staging area? Why not just git commit -m "blabla"?
I don't understand the value of the staging area.
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How can you git add a new file without staging it?
To use git effectively (and as intended) I make small atomic commits, while I do have longer sessions where I do change not only one thing. Thus, I make heavy use of git add -p. This doesn't work for completely new files, though, because I tend to…
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How to recover `.git/index` locally?
I accidentally deleted .git/index, is there a way to recover it? It's permanently deleted. I haven't committed anything yet.
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git forces refresh index after switching between Windows and Linux
I have a disk partition (format: NTFS) shared by Windows and Linux. It contains a git repository (about 6.7 GB).
If I only use Windows or only use Linux to manipulate the git repository everything is okay.
But everytime I switch the system, the git…
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Is the Git staging area just an index?
The book Pro Git says that the staging area is just a list, or index, that says which files will be committed when a git commit is done, and now the name index is more commonly known as the "staging area".
But if we modify the file foo.txt that is…
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git checkout throws an error on --assume-unchanged files
After I run git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file on a particular branch, I'm unable to switch branches using git checkout.
It throws the following error:
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by…
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git assume unchanged vs skip worktree - ignoring a symbolic link
I have a problems with a git repository and windows. The problem is that the git repository has a linux symbolic link in it and with developers running windows, that obviously does not work. Now since that symbolic link should never change, I want…
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How to undo git update-index?
I just did the following to to keep a different copy of my config.php file in my localhost vs. my production environment:
$ git update-index --assume-unchanged application/config/config.php
Unfortunately, I didn't write the config.php file exactly…
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Why staging directory is also called Index/Git Index?
I was confused the naming of staging directory (Git Index) in Git.
Is there any special meaning such that it is called Index?
Why not just called Cache / or Temp directory so that we can understand more easily?
To me, index is sth which help us to…
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