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+# status.py - Type annotations for status related objects
+#
+# Copyright Matt Harbison <mharbison72@gmail.com>
+#
+# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
+# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import (
+    Iterator,
+    Protocol,
+)
+
+
+class Status(Protocol):
+    """Struct with a list of files per status.
+
+    The 'deleted', 'unknown' and 'ignored' properties are only
+    relevant to the working copy.
+    """
+
+    modified: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files with modifications."""
+
+    added: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files that started being tracked."""
+
+    removed: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files that stopped being tracked."""
+
+    deleted: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files in the working directory that are deleted from the
+    file system (but not in the removed state)."""
+
+    unknown: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files in the working directory that are not tracked."""
+
+    ignored: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files in the working directory that are ignored."""
+
+    clean: list[bytes]
+    """The list of files that are not in any other state."""
+
+    def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[list[bytes]]:
+        """Iterates over each of the categories of file lists."""
+
+    def __repr__(self) -> str:
+        """Creates a string representation of the file lists."""