Status

A file can be in one of several states in a Git repository. Here are a few important ones:

untracked: Not being tracked by Git
staged: Marked for inclusion in the next commit
committed: Saved to the repository's history

The git status command shows you the current state of your repo. It will tell you which files are untracked, staged, and committed.

Assignment

Every good content management system needs a table of contents.

Create a file in the root of your webflyx directory called contents.md and add the following text to the file:

# contents

The .md extension means it's a markdown file, which is popular for writing docs.

Save the file, then run:

git status

Run and submit the CLI tests from within the webflyx directory.

Troubleshooting

This course expects Git's output to be in English. If it is not, you can temporarily set your terminal to English.

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

You might need to install the language pack for your system, e.g. sudo apt-get install language-pack-en for Ubuntu.

The Boot.dev CLI requires you to be signed in to submit your solution!

Copy/paste one of the following commands into your terminal:

Run

bootdev run f330368c-734c-4708-971b-2ad33b4b7f52

Submit

bootdev run f330368c-734c-4708-971b-2ad33b4b7f52 -s

Run the CLI commands to test your solution.

git status
- Expecting exit code: 0
- Expecting stdout to contain all of:
  - Untracked files
  - contents.md
cat contents.md
- Expecting exit code: 0
- Expecting stdout to contain all of:
  - # contents

Using the Bootdev CLI

The Bootdev CLI is the only way to submit your solution for this type of lesson. We need to be able to run commands in your environment to verify your solution.

You can install it here. It's a Go program hosted on GitHub, so you'll need Go installed as well. Instructions are on the GitHub page.