before doing anything elselet' look at the status of the projectgit_practicegit status on branch master initial commit untracked files(use "git add to include in what will be committedgitignore hello_world py nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git addto trackgit_practicein gita branch is version of the project you're working onhere you can see that we're on branch named master each time you check your project' statusit should say that you're on the branch master we then see that we're about to make the initial commit commit is snapshot of the project at particular point in time git informs us that untracked files are in the project vbecause we haven' told it which files to track yet then we're told that there' nothing added to the current commitbut there are untracked files present that we might want to add to the repository adding files to the repository let' add the two files to the repositoryand check the status againu git_practicegit add git_practicegit status on branch master initial commit changes to be committed(use "git rm --cached to unstagew new filegitignore new filehello_world py git_practicethe command git add adds all files within project that are not already being tracked to the repository it doesn' commit the filesit just tells git to start paying attention to them when we check the status of the appendix