6 git-add - Add file contents to the index
11 'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
12 [--edit | -e] [--all | [--update | -u]] [--intent-to-add | -N]
13 [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
17 This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
18 index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
20 The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
21 is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus
22 after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
23 the commit command, you must use the 'add' command to add any new or
24 modified files to the index.
26 This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. It only
27 adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
28 run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
29 you must run 'git add' again to add the new content to the index.
31 The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
32 files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
34 The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any
35 ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
36 will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
37 directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
38 globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'add' command can
39 be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
41 Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
48 Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
49 be given to add all matching files. Also a
50 leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
51 and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
52 directory, recursively.
56 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
64 Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
68 Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
69 the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
70 operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
75 Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
76 bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
77 the specified filepatterns before exiting.
80 Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user
81 edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers
82 and apply the patch to the index.
84 *NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character
85 on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer
90 Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
91 content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
93 to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
94 except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
95 command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
96 current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
100 Update files that git already knows about (same as '\--update')
101 and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore'
107 Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
108 for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
109 useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
110 such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit
114 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
115 information in the index.
118 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
119 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
120 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
123 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
124 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
125 for command-line options).
131 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
132 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
133 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
134 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
140 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
141 and its subdirectories:
144 $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
147 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
148 example; this lets the command include the files from
149 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
151 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
157 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
158 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
163 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
164 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
165 interactive command loop.
167 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
168 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
169 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
170 and type return, like this:
174 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
175 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
179 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
182 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
186 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
187 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
188 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
189 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
194 1: binary nothing foo.png
195 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
198 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
199 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
200 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
201 version (if the working tree version were also different,
202 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
203 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
204 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
205 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
210 This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
211 prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
212 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
213 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
214 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
215 omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
216 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
218 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
223 1: binary nothing foo.png
224 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
227 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
234 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
235 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
239 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
240 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
241 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
245 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
246 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
250 This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
251 After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index
252 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
253 the change of each hunk. You can say:
256 n - do not stage this hunk
257 q - quit, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
258 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
259 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
260 g - select a hunk to go to
261 / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
262 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
263 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
264 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
265 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
266 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
267 e - manually edit the current hunk
270 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
271 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
275 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
280 linkgit:git-status[1]
284 linkgit:git-commit[1]
285 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
289 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
293 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
297 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite