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		lisper on July 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A git Primer This is a pretty good guide, but it's marred by one major error: "the index is your staging area where things go after using git add before they get committed." That's not right. The index is where things go after MAKING EDITS IN THE WORKING DIRECTORY before they get committed. (What does "after using git" even mean?)

LukeShu on July 5, 2011 | [–]

I think you read that `add' as an `and'.

It's "after using `git add', before they get committed", which is correct, the `git add' command adds a file to the index.

lisper on July 6, 2011 | | [–]

Oh. Right. Duh.

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