committed the label new file means these files were newly added to the repository making commit let' make the first commitu git_practicegit commit - "started project [master (root-commitc started project files changed insertion(+create mode gitignore create mode hello_world py git_practicegit status on branch master nothing to commitworking directory clean git_practicewe issue the command git commit - "messageu to take snapshot of the project the - flag tells git to record the message that follows ("started project "in the project' log the output shows that we're on the master branch and that two files have changed when we check the status nowwe can see that we're on the master branchand we have clean working directory this is the message you want to see each time you commit working state of your project if you get different messageread it carefullyit' likely you forgot to add file before making commit checking the log git keeps log of all commits made to the project let' check the loggit_practicegit log commit aa cb eac cfc authoreric matthes datemon mar : : - started project git_practiceeach time you make commitgit generates unique -character reference id it records who made the commitwhen it was madeand the message recorded you won' always need all of this informationso git provides an option to print simpler version of the log entriesgit_practicegit log --pretty=oneline aa cb eac cfc started project git_practiceusing git for version control