[Commit Problem]

[seaswander]

Tracked files changed, showed in git status, yet gui button stays on “nothing to commit”.

[Clams]

Because you did not stage the files maybe ?

[seaswander]

Thank you, you’re right. I don’t know why I should stage files that I want to commit. Is this a git command? I mistook it for stash.

[OdatNurd]

Yes, staging (done via git add) adds files to the staging area (a.k.a. index) to prepare what will be ultimately committed when you do a git commit.

git stash is a command for having git take modifications to files that git is already tracking and stashing them in a special stack of pending changes to put your working directory back into a “clean” state.

You’d generally think of a git add and git commit combination as making your changes permanent while a git stash is for setting them aside so that you can come back to them later to do more work, etc.

[seaswander]

Thanks a lot for your explanation!

[srbs]

You can also see the git add specifics when you search for a command with the word stage in it: