links:: Source Control for Test Automation with Git MOC

2. Introduction to Git.

Git has three main states, also called trees, that your files can reside in.

• Modified or newly created data is living in the Working Tree. This is the place where your actual files, which you can see, are on your desk.
• Stage data that you have marked a search, which then goes into your next potential commit, lives in the Staging, or also called Index Tree. You can also see this tree as a kind of packaging station for your files. In reality, this is nothing else but a simple binary file.
• Finally, there is the commit data, which goes into the object store, also called the Local Repository Tree.

Of course, there is also a connection between local repository tree and working tree. In the coming next chapters, you will see how they all interact with each other.

git add . 

Shows files in staging area

git ls-files --stage