6 git-add - Add files to the index file
10 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
14 A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
15 for people used to do "cvs add".
17 It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
18 "git update-index --add".
23 Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]).
26 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
32 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
33 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
34 for command-line options).
40 The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
41 command to list files that are not registered in the index and
42 are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
43 `.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
45 . You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
46 the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
48 . Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
49 run `git-update-index` on that path.
54 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
56 Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
57 `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
59 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
60 example; this lets the command to include the files from
61 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
65 Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
66 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
67 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
68 add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
73 gitlink:git-ls-files[1]
77 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
81 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
85 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite