Git status and git diff show no changes

Question

I made changes to my code and typed:

git status

Which returned

Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/branch_name'. nothing to commit, working directory clean

Then I typed

git diff

Which didn't print out anything...

Can someone help? It should be showing me files that were changed...

Thanks in advance!

Maybe your changes are in the exclusion ? your .gitignore file ? — BENARD Patrick, Apr 28 '16 at 19:14
Are you calling `git status` from the correct working directory? — Martin C., Apr 28 '16 at 19:17

Martin C. · Answer 1 · 2016-04-28T19:18:47.250

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Most likely you changed a file listed in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude. See Github's "Ignoring Files" documentation for more information.

Alternatively is it possible you already committed and pushed your changes? Check with git log or gitk (if installed).

edited Apr 28 '16 at 19:18

answered Apr 28 '16 at 19:15

Martin C.

hi - i checked .gitignore and the files i changed are not being ignored. – Trung Tran Apr 28 '16 at 19:16
Check if you committed? `git log` and maybe `gitk` (if installed) might help. – Martin C. Apr 28 '16 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '16 at 19:15

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When you type git status it compare the content of your working directory to the staging area and the staging are to the repository.

In your case all your files are commited so no changes are tracked.

Diff will print out the difference (content) of the changes which status only print summary

answered Apr 28 '16 at 19:15

CodeWizard

can i un-commit somehow? – Trung Tran Apr 28 '16 at 19:17
of course you can. Read all about it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34519665/how-to-move-head-back-to-a-previous-location/34519716#34519716 – CodeWizard Apr 28 '16 at 19:26

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 28 '16 at 19:19

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git reset --soft HEAD^ solved the issue... i'm not 100% sure why.

answered Apr 28 '16 at 19:19

Trung Tran

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That means you already committed it. And you already pushed it to the remote. – Martin C. Apr 28 '16 at 19:22

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