Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

1. First, we'll make a small change to the file and check git status:

$ echo "Another line" >> another-file.txt
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
    
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
    
modified:   another-file.txt
    
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

This, of course, just tells us that we have modified another-file.txt and we need to use git add to stage it.

2. Let's add the another-file.txt file and run git status again:

$ git add another-file.txt
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
    
Changes ...