Questions tagged [git-index]
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.
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Pop conflicting Git stash while keeping stash index
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I make a heavy use of Git staging area to keep track of the changes that I'm already sure of while the working directory is often a mess of untested solutions, TODOs and a code that is ...
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Removing a submodule manually
I tried removing manually the following submodule from my local repository:
components/CtrlFuelSuppHtr
Removed it from these three places: .git folder, components folder, and deleted it on .gitmodules....
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Git: Could not reset submodule index when checking out
I'm trying to checkout a specific commit ID along with all its submodules.
git checkout --recurse-submodules 7fdb9221d958acda289904951fe6d37873e8cfbf
But I'm getting the following error:
fatal: not a ...
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For a given Git repository, how do I find the path to its index file?
Suppose that I am running a script inside a Git repository and want to access the index file directly. How can I get the path to the index file, in a way that also respects e.g. worktrees?
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How can I recover from "invalid sha1 pointer in resolve-undo" with git fsck?
I run git gc in a repository and get a fatal error:
Enumerating objects: 2382, done.
Counting objects: 100% (2382/2382), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (747/...
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Weird behavior of git switch/checkout if index has same content as target commit [duplicate]
Let's create a small local repository:
git init
echo foo > foo
git add foo
git commit -m foo
git branch bar
echo foo >> foo
git commit -a -m 'another foo'
If we do this now, we replace our ...
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git error: read error while indexing: Invalid argument
I'm initializing a repo in a Google Drive folder which contains a gsheet file. When I index the folder this error happens:
git add .
error: read error while indexing file.gsheet: Invalid argument
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How can navigate one level back at the git interactive staging (add) command
After running the interactive staging git command $ git add -i and choosing one of the options for example "update", then I don't know how to get back to the root level to choose another ...
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Is it possible to apply single lines from stash?
I'm looking for a way to include specific parts of stashes in stage. I'm using TIG frontend, so the method can involve some low level offset, etc. calculation. However currently I don't have any idea ...
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How can I directly and quickly change all the uid/gid of all files in the git index of a git repository
My use case is that
I have a very large GIT repository created by uidA:gidA with all its files and git index as uidA:gidA
That I have snapshoted/frozen using netapp file system technology aka froze ...
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Why does git checkout file behave like reset staged file followed by checkout unstaged file?
I've come across this statement in git documentation:
Checking out a file is similar to using git reset with a file path, except it updates the working directory instead of the stage
Link:https://www....
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Can I mark a file for resolution without adding it to the index with one command?
When there's a conflict, git status shows this:
Unmerged paths:
(use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
(use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution)
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Why does `git update-index` not affect files not in the current directory?
I'm trying to use git update-index --again to re-add modified files to the index. This works fine, but only for files/directories in the current directory. Is this expected behavior for this command ...
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Cloning a git repo that will be the upstream parent but I want to make changes to the README for my new project and not ever push that back
I want to base my new project off of an existing git repo.
My intention is not to extend the current project but to start a new project with different aims.
Specifically I want to remove the original ...
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How does Git restore index and wokring directory internally (upon reset/checkout)?
I understand that when I checkout or reset --hard to a specific commit/branch then I get the relevant contents in my working directory and the index file.
But how does Git internally re-build the ...
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