Git - File Status

About

The status of a file in a working directory is one of:

Git File Lifecycle

where:

  • untracked See untracked
  • unmodified
  • modified
  • staged means that the file is in the index (proposed next commit)

Tracked / Untracked

Each file in a working directory can be in one of two states:

Tracked

Tracked files are files that were in the last snapshot; they can have the status:

  • unmodified,
  • modified,
  • or staged (ie in the index for the next commit)

Untracked

Untracked files are new files.

More specifically, they are any files in the working directory that:

Management

Modification

Get

git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

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no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")





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