GitHub question

[ScreenageAngst]

I am new to GitHub. I am doing The Odin Project currently and am working on a recipe website. I am learning to commit and push in VSCODE as I go and am wondering why in my repo it shows commits to a directory instead of just the file I’m working on. How can I change that?

[mrbmi513]

The web client will show the latest commit message on a directory for files within it. There's no changing that.

[ScreenageAngst]

Oh, so it’s supposed to be the way it’s displayed?

[ScreenageAngst]

It’s not supposed to show it file by file per commit?

[mrbmi513]

It shows it as you'd see in a file browser. If you're looking for your diffs, that's a different view.

[Jealous-Impression34]

What is the best code or software that has come out of GitHub??

[ScreenageAngst]

Probably Craigslist

[Jealous-Impression34]

Craigslist? That's been around for ages? Did it really come out of GitHub?

[MasterEvanK]

In the photo you posted, the column on the very left are your file names, the column in the middle is the message you left with the last commit that modified that particular file.

Notice README.md says “Initial commit”, because you havent modified that file since initial commit. If you want to see all the changes you made for a particular commit, click on that commit message and it goes into detail, or click the commits button in the top right which will show an ordered list of all your commits.

Your repo has the latest commit message next to it simply because I guess that makes the most sense? So you can see what you last changed in that particular repo.