The Three States

The Three States

Git has three main states that your files can reside in: modified, staged, and committed:

• Modified means that you have changed the file but have not committed it to your database yet.

• Staged means that you have marked a modified file in its current version to go into your next commit snapshot.

• Committed means that the data is safely stored in your local database.

This leads us to the three main sections of a Git project: the working tree, the staging area, and the Git directory.

We will discuss this again by working with an example.