VS Code Questions

What is the VS code telling me that I don’t understand?

  • What does the green color in the Explorer column of the Styles folder and bio-page.css name mean? My guess is that there is an error because the page styling is not appearing as it should, but I can’t see the error. This project was working without error until I came back to it in VSC to look at how I did something only to find that there are errors.
  • What does the ‘U’ to the right of the bio-page.css filename mean?
  • What does the ‘3’ in the gold circle mean? I think that icon it appears in indicates the git add-on. Does this mean that that I’ve made 3 changes since the last commit?

tia

Hello ahraitch,

If I remember correctly, it has to do with git. The green file with the “U” means it’s untracked. The folder is green because it has an untracked file. Which could mean that it’s a new file and hasn’t been committed yet, or is in the git ignore file.

As for the 3, Im used to it being blue not yellow so Im not 100% sure but it usually means that’s the amount of (uncommitted) changed files. If you click on it you could probably confirm it.

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These are all indications from your source control (presumably Git).

That the file or directory is new. It does not exist on the remote branch.

It stands for “Untracked”, meaning that you have not staged it to be added to the remote branch.

Yes. It means that 3 files contain uncommitted changes.
screenshot showing the alt text for the indicator

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I’ve searched but haven’t found a reference for understanding such things about the VSC UI.

Can anyone recommend a good wiki?

this is the documentation for VSCode

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