6 git-add - Add file contents to the changeset to be committed next
10 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [-u] [--] <file>...
14 All the changed file contents to be committed together in a single set
15 of changes must be "added" with the 'add' command before using the
16 'commit' command. This is not only for adding new files. Even modified
17 files must be added to the set of changes about to be committed.
19 This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. The added
20 content corresponds to the state of specified file(s) at the time the
21 'add' command is used. This means the 'commit' command will not consider
22 subsequent changes to already added content if it is not added again before
25 The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included
28 This command can be used to add ignored files with `-f` (force)
29 option, but they have to be
30 explicitly and exactly specified from the command line. File globbing
31 and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files.
33 Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
40 Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
41 be given to add all matching files. Also a
42 leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
43 and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
44 directory, recursively.
47 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
53 Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
56 Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
60 Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar
61 to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
62 except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
63 command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files are
67 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
68 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
69 for command-line options).
75 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
76 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
77 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
78 those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
83 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
85 Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation`
86 directory and its subdirectories.
88 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
89 example; this lets the command to include the files from
90 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
94 Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts.
95 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
96 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
97 consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
101 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
102 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
103 interactive command loop.
105 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
106 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
107 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
108 and type return, like this:
112 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
113 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
117 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
120 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
124 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
125 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
126 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
127 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
132 1: binary nothing foo.png
133 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
136 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
137 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
138 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
139 version (if the working tree version were also different,
140 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
141 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
142 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
143 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
148 This shows the status information and gives prompt
149 "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
150 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
151 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
152 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
155 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
160 1: binary nothing foo.png
161 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
164 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
171 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
172 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
176 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
177 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
178 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
182 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
183 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
187 This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
188 After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
189 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
190 the change of each hunk. You can say:
192 y - add the change from that hunk to index
193 n - do not add the change from that hunk to index
194 a - add the change from that hunk and all the rest to index
195 d - do not the change from that hunk nor any of the rest to index
196 j - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next
198 J - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next hunk
199 k - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the previous
201 K - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the previous hunk
203 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
204 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
208 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
214 gitlink:git-status[1]
217 gitlink:git-commit[1]
218 gitlink:git-update-index[1]
222 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
226 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
230 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite