Git Icons
In today's modern era of technological advancement, an icon is referred to as a tiny selectable or non-selectable image or symbol associated with any file, program or application functionality. It represents an operating system or on any web using a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
When you double-click these icons, the action associated with that icon is performed. These are considered the main part of GUI operating systems.
Through these small icons, we can deliver a long message to the end user so that it can be understood quickly and save time.
Git Icon
Git is considered as the leading and most popular version control system among all version controls. It provides many easy-to-operate features to the users and makes the work of developers simpler and manageable.
Among them, Git Icons are the main feature that helps users identify and understand the functions they need to perform. These are tiny graphical symbols. These icons provide a very attractive visual representation instead of traditional text-based links.
Several Git icons
We can see Git icons of different colors on the left side of the thumbnails. These icons can be designed in the Preferences dialog under Options Team, then navigate to Options Git and finally on the Icon Decorations tab pop up Label Decorations.
These indicators on a file are used to show its status. Here are some default Git icons in the image below:
The above mentioned file names tell us the conditional files with the help of the following table:
| state | illustrate |
|---|---|
| tracked | Indicates that the modified file has been submitted to the Git repository and has not changed. |
| untracked | This means that the Git repository does not understand the file and is neither committed nor staged. |
| ignored | file, telling Git to ignore it. |
| dirty | The file has staged changes since the last commit, and has been modified and does not exist in the index or repository. |
| staged | All text or code changes made by that person are pushed to some temporary location and will be included in the next commit. |
| partially-staged | The file has been partially changed and added to the index, while other unstaged changes are still available in the working tree. |
| add | Staged but not yet tracked and added to the Git repository. |
| removed | The user's changes were removed from the Git repository and misplaced. |
| conflict | The file has a merge conflict. |
Some other icons are also used to display the status as text included in the changed file name.
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arrow left plus This is an incoming add, meaning the resource is included in the target branch. -
Left Arrow This arrow indicates that incoming changes in this file are pending and someone on the team has modified this file and pushed it to the corresponding branch. -
Arrow pointing left This arrow indicates that the file has been deleted by someone on the team from their branch. -
red plus This is a conflicting add, meaning the resource has already been added to both our workspace and the target branch. -
Red icon This is a conflicting change, which means that the file has been changed in our workspace, our local branch, and the target branch. Also, a manual or automatic merge is required. -
red minus This conflicting deletion indicates that the resource has been deleted in our workspace and the target branch. -
arrow right plus This is an outgoing addition, which means that the file is included in our workspace but does not yet appear in the target branch. -
arrow right This is an outgoing change, meaning the file has been changed from our workspace. -
arrow right minus This is an outgoing delete, meaning it is a resource that has been deleted from our workspace.
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