kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git status
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# Updated but not checked in:
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#       new file: .karlsDUS.sh.swp
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# Changed but not updated:
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#       deleted:  .karlsDUS.sh.swp
#       modified: karlsDUS.sh
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kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git-update-index karlsDUS.sh 
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ ls -A
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 8 kgoetz kgoetz 4.0K 2006-09-08 21:59 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 kgoetz kgoetz 5.3K 2006-09-08 21:56 karlsDUS.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kgoetz kgoetz 1.7K 2006-09-08 21:15 xchat.pl
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git-update-index --help
Reformatting git-update-index(1), please wait...
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git-update-index --remove .karlsDUS.sh.swp
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git status
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# Updated but not checked in:
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kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git commit -a
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git-update-server-info 
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$ git status
nothing to commit
kgoetz@Rommel:~/MyDownloads/GIT/karl-utils$