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Git Status

Git Status

The git status commands displays the state of the working directory and the staging area. It displays paths that have differences between the index file and the current HEAD commit, paths that have differences between the working tree and the index file, and paths in the working tree that are not tracked by Git (and are not ignored by gitignore

git status command output does not show you any information regarding the committed project history. For this, you need to use git log.

Usage

git status

List which files are staged, unstaged, and untracked.