Inspecting Status, Diff & Commit History

💻 GitLesson 5Beginner

Tracking states is managed by inspecting file alterations, staging statuses, and commit history lists.

1 Git History & Logs

Shell — Status and History CLI

# Check active file statuses (untracked, modified, staged)
git status

# Check lines altered compared to the staging area
git diff

# Check full list of commits
git log

# Inspect logs in a single line format
git log --oneline --graph --decorate

2 Code Challenge

Challenge: Modify an existing file, run git diff to review the line modifications, stage the file, run git status to confirm it is ready for commit, and execute the commit.