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Shows which files in a Git repository have been modified and/or staged and what state they are in since the last commit

This is the main tool in to see the status of the files on the stage and what state they are in.

Running this command will tell you what tracked files have been added, deleted or modified since the last commit.

On a fresh repo or branch, you should see the following: 

$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

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various git states, low-level understanding of git status (head, index, working states)

Imagine you have one tree with one file. Suppose we have only two possible states for this file, a, and b. If it's missing or not-existent, ø. I'm trying to build a table to understand all the possible git-statuses. I believe what I have makes…
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Can't unmodify files in git

When I merged with another branch, a few of my files became modified automatically. I tried to checkout -- on the files, but git status still shows them as modified. I then tried a custom shell function that normally fixes these kinds of problems…
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Unity files not being ignored properly by git

I'm working with Unity in a group, and because of what I've read in several places, we put the following lines into our .gitignore # =============== # # Unity generated # # ===============…
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bash alias not working(open git status output files as vim tab)

I am trying to make this alias working: alias ciao="vim -p `git status --short | awk '{print $2}'; git show --pretty="format:" --name-only` Basically I would like to open every files, printed by git status, as vim tab. The command works properly…
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Why doesn't "git status" give me changed files in shared repo?

This has been asked before, but I'm still struggling with it. Here's my flow: # INIT REPOSITORY /path/git % mkdir test.git /path/git % cd test.git /path/git/test.git % git init --bare --shared Initialized empty shared Git repository in…
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Changed files check via Git

I have a Wordpress file tree (wp-admin,wp-content etc) from April 2016 with the .git folder locally on my PC. I have just downloaded the latest version of that file tree from my server and wish to see the difference between these folders. Is there a…
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Is the full path required to unstage a file in GIT if am currenlty under a sub-directory?

Repo: mergetest $pwd /gitvobs/mergetest/apple $git status On branch br1 Changed but not updated: (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) **modified: inside** $git…
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Get changed filenames from git into list

I want to create a new file that contains the names of all the files that have been changed in a repository PRIOR to commit using batch, so I tried typing in: git status --porcelain>test.txt which it outputs the staged/unstaged/untracked files in…
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Git local changes / diff / JGIT

I'm stuck at the following problem: This is what I want: a git command, that I can use to show the 'US' changes it should work like status, (show what I did) in comparisation to the remote This is what I tried: git diff [in JGit -> diffentry]…
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How to check github commit history from all branches of a repository?

We had a repository in GitHub with nearly 10-15 branches, developers are committed nearly 3-4 branches on a typical day. I need to check who is committed and who is not from all those branches. please guide me, how i can do this.
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git status without default upstream doesnt give full repo comparison information; workaround?

The working repo in my local system has 2 remote repos (stage and live). I want to push to them individually, to stage while developing and to live when code is ready. Hence I can't set a default upstream. Because of this I dont get the message…
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Filter git status by not showing ignored files/folders

Is there a way in git to filter git status by not showing ignored files/folders I have gone through the documentation for .gitignore. I dint find any solution for this. I added few files and directories in .git/info/exclude file in order not to…
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Git seems to track every single file on drive

For some reason when I set up my git repository git clone lists all the files in that particular drive, i.e. % git status # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) # …
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git-pull omits a file

Git is saying everything is up to date but there is a file missing on one node's copy of the source tree. On system A: $ ls -l abc.py xyz.py $ git add xyz.py $ git status nothing added to commit... $ git commit nothing added to commit... $ git…
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git ignore a directory not working

so I created a new directory called "Repository" WITHOUT adding, committing, and pushing I then added this to my .gitignore /home/users/user/httpdocs/Repository/* /home/users/user/httpdocs/Repository I also did this cd…
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