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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Mark Wilkowske
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Mark Wilkowske
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Mark Wilkowske
Courses Plus Student 18,131 Points

Commits and how does the .save file work in the repository?

While editing 'myfile' in my repository I noticed myfile.save and I'm not sure how that got created. I think I'm missing a part of the commit process. Thanks for your help!

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Roman Rheingans
Roman Rheingans
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Roman Rheingans
Roman Rheingans
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.save files are a file format used to preserve unsaved changes made to a file. These are a nano filetype, rather than specific to git, and can be created if nano is force to quit without saving. If you don't need the changes in that file, you can probably delete it:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/601985/what-are-save-files

As for tracking changes made to the original myfile - if you open it, are you seeing the changes you wanted to make? Secondly, what are you seeing if you use git status?

cd ~/project-directory-path-here
git status