

You can also choose not to stage your modified files by skipping the staging area. The equivalent command for this action is git reset to unstage a single file or git reset to unstage all the files in a directory. The equivalent command for this action is git commit -m "Your commit message".Ĭhanges can also be unstaged by selecting all staged changes and clicking the Unstage button. Only changes in the Staged Changes section are added to the next commit, which you can do by selecting Commit Staged. When you stage a change, Visual Studio creates a Staged Changes section. To stage changes when you're ready, select each file you want to stage and click the Stage button, or right-click a file and then select Stage.

Git tracks file changes in your repo as you work, and separates the files in your repo into three categories. Or, you can work locally with no provider at all. While this article references GitHub repositories, you can work remotely with the Git provider of your choice, such as GitHub or Azure DevOps. The core part of any Git workflow is modifying files and committing the changes in those files. Make a Git commit in Visual Studio for Mac The image below illustrates the options provided by Visual Studio for Mac by the Git menu:

The sections below will explore how Git can be used for version control in Visual Studio for Mac. This means that there is a central server that contains all the files, but when a repository is checked out from this central source, the entire repository is cloned to the local machine. Git is a distributed version control system that allows teams to work on the same documents simultaneously. Applies to: Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio
