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I have the following problem in eclipse:
How do I solve a dirty index?
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If you made changes to them, they are dirty otherwise they are clean. To make your index clean you could do a reset to just remove the changes from the index but not from the working tree, to also remove them from the working tree you can use git stash via the command line, or via the Git Repositories view in Eclipse.
To resolve this issue you can do the following. Always commit your local changes in the file or stash them before you apply the pull/merge operation on the local branch. if you have forgotten step 1, and already facing DIRTY_WORKTREE then either you have to stash your uncommitted changes and then pull.
This error is happening when you have made local changes to files that haven't been committed yet. In git's parlance, you have uncommitted changes in your working tree. When you are in this situation and you try to pull, git is not sure what to do with the local changes you have.
The Git index is a critical data structure in Git. It serves as the “staging area” between the files you have on your filesystem and your commit history. When you run git add , the files from your working directory are hashed and stored as objects in the index, leading them to be “staged changes”.
The index is the place in git where you register the changes you want to include in your next commit (via git add).
If you have no changes recorded on your index at all, the index is considered clean, but if there are files added to the index, the index is considered dirty.
The same applys to your working tree (the checked out files from your repository). If you made changes to them, they are dirty otherwise they are clean.
To make your index clean you could do a reset to just remove the changes from the index but not from the working tree, to also remove them from the working tree you can use git stash via the command line, or via the Git Repositories view in Eclipse.
When you stash changes they get saved just like a commit but you easily regain and delete stashes. You can consider them as some kind of cache. You can read more here.
If you stash the changes you can regain them by applying them back to the repository via the command line (git stash apply) or via EGit (see Stashed Commits).
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