1git-status(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-status - Show working tree status. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-status' 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Examines paths in the working tree that has changes unrecorded 16to the index file, and changes between the index file and the 17current HEAD commit. The former paths are what you _could_ 18commit by running 'git-update-index' before running 'git 19commit', and the latter paths are what you _would_ commit by 20running 'git commit'. 21 22If there is no path that is different between the index file and 23the current HEAD commit, the command exits with non-zero 24status. 25 26 27OUTPUT 28------ 29The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit 30template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'. 31 32 33Author 34------ 35Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 36Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. 37 38Documentation 39-------------- 40Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 41 42GIT 43--- 44Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 45