Question

I’m new to git, coming from SVN world. So far, it seems a lot more useful, but I am still working out the kinks.

Currently, my workflow is like this:

make changes > git add . > git commit > enter log message

What I don’t understand is why I seem to have to add all of my files before I commit. They are under version control already? Why does git commit tell me there are no changes added to the commit, but also point out that I have modified files? It says “Changed but not updated:”. What does this mean??

Sorry if this is easy, I feel like I am missing some overarching point

Answer 1

This allows you to separate commits by edits. If you only want to commit these files now, under one commit, and then these next files now, under a second commit, you could do:

git add files_under_one_topic
git commit -m "this is about one thing"

git add files_left_over_to_commit_about_a_completely_different_topic
git commit -m "this is about another thing."