Lesson 3: Discovering your Paths > Git add and commit | Python Programming (70053 Autumn Term 2022/2023) | Department of Computing

Lesson 3

Discovering your Paths

Chapter 5: Making a git commit

Git add and commit

face Josiah Wang

Now, let us update the repo to incorporate the latest changes.

Remember the workflow! The process of updating any changes to a repo is

git add
git commit

First, check the status of your Git repo (you do remember how by now?)

user@MACHINE:~/robot$ git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   main.py

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

You can see now that main.py is now marked as modified.

Let us now stage the file. There are two ways to add a modified file.

git add main.py as done previously
git add -u will stage all updated/modified files

I will go with the second version in the example below.

user@MACHINE:~/robot$ git add -u
user@MACHINE:~/robot$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
        modified:   main.py

You can see that main.py is ready to be committed.

So go ahead and commit the file.

user@MACHINE:~/robot$ git commit -m "Updated robot program to read in coordinates, clip the coordinates to be between 0-9, and print out the robot's coordinates and quadrant."
[master 9ec62f0] Updated robot program to read in coordinates, clip the coordinates to be between 0-9, and print out the robot's coordinates and quadrant.
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

And a final check:

user@MACHINE:~/robot$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Great! You have updated your code in the repo!