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NAME
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NAME
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-git-add - Add files to the index file
+git-add - Add file contents to the changeset to be committed next
SYNOPSIS
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SYNOPSIS
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-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
+'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <file>...
DESCRIPTION
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DESCRIPTION
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-A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
-for people used to do "cvs add".
+All the changed file contents to be committed together in a single set
+of changes must be "added" with the 'add' command before using the
+'commit' command. This is not only for adding new files. Even modified
+files must be added to the set of changes about to be committed.
+
+This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. The added
+content corresponds to the state of specified file(s) at the time the
+'add' command is used. This means the 'commit' command will not consider
+subsequent changes to already added content if it is not added again before
+the commit.
+
+The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included
+for the next commit.
+
+This command can be used to add ignored files with `-f` (force)
+option, but they have to be
+explicitly and exactly specified from the command line. File globbing
+and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files.
+
+Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
+commit.
-It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
-"git update-index --add".
OPTIONS
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<file>...::
OPTIONS
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<file>...::
- Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]).
+ Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
+ be given to add all matching files. Also a
+ leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
+ and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
+ directory, recursively.
-n::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
-n::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
-v::
Be verbose.
-v::
Be verbose.
+-f::
+ Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
+
+\i, \--interactive::
+ Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
+ the index.
+
\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
for command-line options).
\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
for command-line options).
-DISCUSSION
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-
-The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
-command to list files that are not registered in the index and
-are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
-`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
-
-. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
- the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
-
-. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
- run `git-update-index` on that path.
-
-
EXAMPLES
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git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
EXAMPLES
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git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
- Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
- `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
+ Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation`
+ directory and its subdirectories.
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
git-add git-*.sh::
git-add git-*.sh::
- Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
+ Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts.
Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
- add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
+ consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
+
+Interactive mode
+----------------
+When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
+output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
+interactive command loop.
+
+The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
+gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
+with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
+and type return, like this:
+
+------------
+ *** Commands ***
+ 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
+ 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
+ What now> 1
+------------
+
+You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
+choice is unique.
+
+The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
+
+status::
+
+ This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
+ committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
+ working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
+ "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
+ looks like this:
++
+------------
+ staged unstaged path
+ 1: binary nothing foo.png
+ 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
+------------
++
+It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
+binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
+difference between indexed copy and the working tree
+version (if the working tree version were also different,
+'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
+other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
+and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
+working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
+one deletion).
+
+update::
+
+ This shows the status information and gives prompt
+ "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
+ make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
+ comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
+ 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
+ everything.
++
+What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
+like this:
++
+------------
+ staged unstaged path
+ 1: binary nothing foo.png
+* 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
+------------
++
+To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
+like this:
++
+------------
+Update>> -2
+------------
++
+After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
+contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
+
+revert::
+
+ This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
+ information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
+ HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
+
+add untracked::
+
+ This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
+ 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
+
+patch::
+
+ This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
+ After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
+ and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
+ the change of each hunk. You can say:
+
+ y - add the change from that hunk to index
+ n - do not add the change from that hunk to index
+ a - add the change from that hunk and all the rest to index
+ d - do not the change from that hunk nor any of the rest to index
+ j - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next
+ undecided hunk
+ J - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next hunk
+ k - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the previous
+ undecided hunk
+ K - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the previous hunk
++
+After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
+that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
+
+diff::
+
+ This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
+ HEAD and index).
+
See Also
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See Also
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+gitlink:git-status[1]
gitlink:git-rm[1]
gitlink:git-rm[1]
-gitlink:git-ls-files[1]
+gitlink:git-mv[1]
+gitlink:git-commit[1]
+gitlink:git-update-index[1]
Author
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Author
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