Git 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. Running git status will show the following, assuming a change was saved in a text file example.txt (but not added to the staging area) and README.txt is a new file that was added to the staging area:

$ git status

On branch main

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
  new file: README.txt

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  example.txt

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