What does “Changes not staged for commit” mean

Question

I thought if you want to track the files you should git add [files you want to track]

I don\'t know why I got the messages Changes not staged for com

Answer 1

You have to use git add to stage them, or they won't commit. Take it that it informs git which are the changes you want to commit.

git add -u :/ adds all modified file changes to the stage git add * :/ adds modified and any new files (that's not gitignore'ed) to the stage