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Let's not forget about the index. Or is it called the staging area?
by rags2riches 5y ago
Let's not forget about the index. Or is it called the staging area?
- RichardCA 5y agoThis conceptual overloading of language can be traced back to Linus' first commit. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23... The original idea was "current directory cache" and that still pops up in the syntax. I always run "git diff --cached" as a last sanity check before a commit.