Status
In Git, the status
command shows the state of the working directory, staging area, and which files are untracked (names shown in red and not staged) or tracked (shown in green and staged). The tracked files, shown in green, are found in the staging area and will be saved with the next commit.
Example
Below is a short example of how the git status
command works. Assuming a change was saved in a text file, example.txt, running git status
will show that:
$ git statusOn branch mainNo commits yetUntracked files:(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)example.txtnothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)