Example for http://stackoverflow.com/q/30650082/827263

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/kst/2015-06-04/.git/
$ mkdir foo.dir
$ cd foo.dir
$ echo hello > hello.txt
$ git add .
$ git status
On branch master

Initial commit

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)

        new file:   hello.txt

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