Lesson 02

Working Directory

The Working Directory is the project currently on your computer.

git statusEdit not inspected

index.html

style.css

app.jsChanged on disk

Ready to run git status.

You changed app.js, but Git has not prepared that change for a commit yet.

The Real Command

Terminal

$git status

Example Output

On branch main
Changes not staged for commit:
  modified:   app.js

no changes added to commit

git status shows which files have changed.

git status --short

--short makes the report compact. Each changed file appears on one concise line.

Example Output

 M app.js

Knowledge Check

Read the State of Your Project

Identify where edits live and what Git reports without changing anything.

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