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Staging reset

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the staging and commit sequence described in the issue, then inspect how Index.remove() and git status report staged files. Done means the staged file list is cleared after commit and the working directory is not incorrectly cleared; add a regression test for that behavior.

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Description

Issue found that when I stage and commit in pygit2 the staged file list is not removed. This in turn causes the whole working directory to be cleared because the staged files is still present if "git status" is called. Is there a workaround? : Like Index.remove() after the version is staged and committed?

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