Subject: Re: A Basic Git Question About File Tracking

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:10:35 -0500

Hi!

Jon Forrest wrote:

> The Pro Git book says "Untracked basically means that Git sees a
> file you didn’t have in the previous snapshot (commit)".

Yep, that's a bug in the Pro Git book.  "Untracked" means "not in
the index", nothing more, nothing less.

I believe Scott takes patches[1]. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/progit/progit