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What are untracked files in a Git repository?

What exactly are untracked files in a repository?

Solution

  • Files in a repo folder that have not been added to the index.

    So for instance, if I do:

    git diff HEAD^ > some-new-file.diff

    Then some-new-file.diff is probably untracked, since I've never done a git add on it before.