1git-status(1) 2============= 3v0.99.4, Aug 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-status - Show working tree status. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git status' 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Examines paths in the working tree that has changes unrecorded 17to the index file, and changes between the index file and the 18current HEAD commit. The former paths are what you _could_ 19commit by running 'git-update-index' before running 'git 20commit', and the latter paths are what you _would_ commit by 21running 'git commit'. 22 23If there is no path that is different between the index file and 24the current HEAD commit, the command exits with non-zero 25status. 26 27 28OUTPUT 29------ 30The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit 31template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'. 32 33 34Author 35------ 36Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 37Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. 38 39Documentation 40-------------- 41Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 42 43GIT 44--- 45Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 46