Fundamentals

Indexes and ranges

Working with rapid-git means working with indexes. In the following paragraphs and pages we will often use this very word. It may makes you wonder: What are these indexes? Well, indexes always refer to the position of a file, directory or branch in the output of git status and git branch. They start at 1, not at 0 and can form ranges. These so called ranges can be defined using numbers and dots notation.

Available notations

Notation

Description

#

select a single list entry

..

select all list entries

..# e.g. ..5

select the first entry up to the fifth one

#.. e.g. 3..

select the third entry up to the last one

#..# e.g. 4..7

select the fourth entry up to the seventh entry

Support information

Committing commands support simple indexes as well as ranges
Committing commands allow multiple arguments to be passed
Branching commands mostly support a single index