[PLUG] git question

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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I have a git repository of an existing project.  There are several thousand
files but I only changed a few dozen.

Now the index (via the git status command) tells me there are thousands of
missing and modified files in my working directory.  The modified ones I can
explain ("True" vs "true" for example) but I'm at a loss to understand why git
thinks I don't have almost 2000 files that I DO have.

What is the git command to clear out this index without losing any of my changed
files?  It is alluded to on this page:
http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_index.html
but he never says what the command is.

Thanks
Eric

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