Displaying status of files in Git

Git status command provides information about the local working directory.It provides information such as:

• Current branch
• Files in the staging area
• Untracked/tracked files

 

As the message above states that there is an untracked file test.txt we can add the file using the git add command:

$ git add test.txt

As we can see above using just the git status command displays a detailed output.If we do not want to display all the messages and hints.To prevent all the hints from getting displayed we can use the -s switch as:

$ git status -s

Now instead of displaying detailed output we get only the relevant information.Here it displays a single untracked file test.txt.

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