From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:01:45 GMT Subject: Re: Definition of working directory Message-ID: <7v8vilzm06.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Anjib Mulepati writes: > So if I have a project called MyProject and inside that I have two > sub-directories dir1 and dir2. Does that mean working directory is > *ALWAYS* MyProject. Your working tree is MyProject that has two subdirectories dir1 and dir2. > Also if i create some file in dir1 and do git status without git add > then it display untracked files as ../dir1/ > It doesn't display the untracked file name but after I do git add when > I did git status it does give me file under changes to be > committed. Why didn't it shows file with name as untracked in first > case? Because often such a directory has tons of garbage files that are totally uninteresting. Check "git help status" and look for the --untracked-files option if you want to learn more.