6 git-add - Add file contents to the index
11 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
12 [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
16 This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
17 index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
19 The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
20 is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus
21 after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
22 the commit command, you must use the 'add' command to add any new or
23 modified files to the index.
25 This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. It only
26 adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
27 run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
28 you must run 'git add' again to add the new content to the index.
30 The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
31 files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
33 The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any
34 ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
35 will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
36 directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
37 globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'add' command can
38 be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
40 Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
47 Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
48 be given to add all matching files. Also a
49 leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
50 and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
51 directory, recursively.
55 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
62 Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
66 Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
67 the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
68 operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
73 Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
74 bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
75 the specified filepatterns before exiting.
78 Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
79 content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
81 to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
82 except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
83 command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
84 current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
87 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
88 information in the index.
91 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
92 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
93 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
96 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
97 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
98 for command-line options).
104 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
105 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
106 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
107 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5][repository layout].
113 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
114 and its subdirectories:
117 $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
120 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
121 example; this lets the command to include the files from
122 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
124 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
130 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
131 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
136 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
137 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
138 interactive command loop.
140 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
141 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
142 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
143 and type return, like this:
147 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
148 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
152 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
155 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
159 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
160 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
161 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
162 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
167 1: binary nothing foo.png
168 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
171 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
172 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
173 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
174 version (if the working tree version were also different,
175 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
176 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
177 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
178 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
183 This shows the status information and gives prompt
184 "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
185 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
186 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
187 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
190 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
195 1: binary nothing foo.png
196 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
199 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
206 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
207 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
211 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
212 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
213 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
217 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
218 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
222 This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
223 After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
224 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
225 the change of each hunk. You can say:
228 n - do not stage this hunk
229 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
230 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
231 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
232 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
233 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
234 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
235 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
238 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
239 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
243 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
248 The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
249 characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
250 used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
251 double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
255 linkgit:git-status[1]
259 linkgit:git-commit[1]
260 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
264 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
268 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
272 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite