Git - File Status

About

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

Git File Lifecycle

where:

State Tracked Description
untracked untracked New file
unmodified Tracked File is the same as in the last commit
modified Tracked File is not the same as in the last commit
staged Tracked File has been added in the index to create the 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 (ie head). 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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