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| | 18 | == The staging area == |
| | 19 | A major difference between Git and Subversion is that you have to select which changes you would like to add to a commit. So from the changes in your working directory, you add these to the index, and the changes that are in the index are committed. |
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| | 21 | [[Image(http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/images/index1.png)]] |
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| | 23 | In Subversion, the `svn add` command just registers untracked files for committing, whereas `git add` also puts in tracked files with untracked changes into the index. |
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| | 25 | See the [http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html article on the staging area on gitready.com]. |
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