Pragmatic Guide to Git

5	Seeing What Has Changed

Your local repository tracks changes. Before you start committing just anything, you need to see what changes exist between your working tree and your repository and what changes are staged and ready to commit. git status is the tool for the job.

git status has several different outputs, depending on what’s in your working tree. The example on the next page is from one of my repositories, and it contains all three types of outputs: staged changes, changes to known files, and untracked files. Let’s go over them in reverse order of how they appear on the next page—the order of least important to most.

Starting at lines 14 and ending at 17, Git outputs the files and paths that it doesn’t know anything ...