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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Staging Our Changes

Posted by David Hackett
David Hackett
3,191 Points

GIT... I'm being dumb ?!

Simple one- but my answer is wrong (matches the video I thought), what am I doing wrong ?!?!!

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points
Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi David,

The challenges are aiming to get you used to the process of checking your repository's status, staging uncommitted changes, committing changes to the staging area, and checking your status to see that staging and committing occurred as expected.

1) To print the status of the current git repository: git status

2) To add the uncommitted changes to README.md to the staging area: git add README.md

3) To view the repository again: git status

4) To add the untracked file prototype.html to the staging area: git add prototype.html

5) To commit all changes made to the staging area: git commit -m "[Put your message here.]"

6) To check the repository once more: git status

-m is considered a flag, and it is used to add a message to your commit, so folks know what you committed.

Hope that helps!