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Up | Content | Intro | Concepts | Operations | Dictionary

Index

The index is a binary file in .git/index containing a sorted list of file names with their access mode and the hashcode of the corresponding blob object.

$ git ls-files --stage
<mode> <object>                                 <stage> <file>
100644 63c918c667fa005ff12ad89437f2fdc80926e21c 0       .gitignore
100644 5529b198e8d14decbe4ad99db3f7fb632de0439d 0       .mailmap

Mode

<Mode> = (AAABBB)

  • AAA : Octal notation of the file type (100-regular, 120-symlink, 160-gitlink)
  • BBB : Octal notation of the access mode (644-read, 755-read/write)

Stage

The stage id is used when merging files. It has one of the following values:

  • 0 (ok)
  • 1 (base)
  • 2 (ours)
  • 3 (theirs)