On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Fredrik Modèen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I do a git diff and are not getting any results, nothing will be > submitted when I commit right? Not necessarily. That means that your working copy is identical to your index. If you run git diff --cached and get no results, then your index is also identical to HEAD. > Reason for this question is that I had a lot of changes and made a new > director (not a new branch or so, that out of my leg when it comes to > git). I reverted everything in the directory that will be used to commit > stuff but I had problem getting it clean and I don't want to submit stuff > that I’m not intended to submit and doing a diff should answer that > question like it does in SVN? Another option is to add the -v flag when you call git commit, which will show you a patch of all the changes you are committing (it isn't part of your commit message though). --Alex