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Let see how many file's do I have in my local working directory

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ ls

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ ls

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ gedit readme.txt

 git status 

On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   my_first_file
    modified:   readme.txt

they might be completely different, I did two things at once.

Now we would like two stage these as two different commits

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ git add my_first_file

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ git status

On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage)

    modified:   my_first_file

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   readme.txt

you can see my_first_file changes has been staged but readme.txt are not staged

Now I will commit it my_first_file

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ git commit -m"fied bugs-1098"

[master c4bf6fc] fied bugs-1098
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Now I will add the readme.txt

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ git add readme.txt

naveen@naveen:/var/www/html/RND/symfony_sites/symfony_todoapp$ git commit -m"added additional information regarding new features in readme"

[master 4007396] added additional information regarding new features in readme
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Basically staging helps us to break commits into logical units