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Be sure to re-add files to stage to commit in Git if you modify them after adding but before committing

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 5, 2009 - 8:00pm
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Learned something new about git!

If you git add filename and then make some changes to that file before running git commit -m "Helpful commit message." those changes that you saved and tested are not part of that commit. You have to run git add again-- git add adds the exact version of the file at that time, not simply adding the file as a concept to staging.

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