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 updates the index using the current content found in
18 the working tree, to prepare the content staged for the next commit.
19 It typically adds the current content of existing paths as a whole,
20 but with some options it can also be used to add content with
21 only part of the changes made to the working tree files applied, or
22 remove paths that do not exist in the working tree anymore.
24 The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
25 is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus
26 after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
27 the commit command, you must use the `add` command to add any new or
28 modified files to the index.
30 This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. It only
31 adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
32 run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
33 you must run `git add` again to add the new content to the index.
35 The `git status` command can be used to obtain a summary of which
36 files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
38 The `git add` command will not add ignored files by default. If any
39 ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, `git add`
40 will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
41 directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
42 globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The `add` command can
43 be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
45 Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
52 Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
53 be given to add all matching files. Also a
54 leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
55 and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
56 directory, recursively.
60 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
68 Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
72 Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
73 the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
74 operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
79 Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the
80 work tree and add them to the index. This gives the user a chance
81 to review the difference before adding modified contents to the
84 This effectively runs `add --interactive`, but bypasses the
85 initial command menu and directly jumps to the `patch` subcommand.
86 See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
89 Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user
90 edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers
91 and apply the patch to the index.
93 *NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character
94 on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer
99 Only match <filepattern> against already tracked files in
100 the index rather than the working tree. That means that it
101 will never stage new files, but that it will stage modified
102 new contents of tracked files and that it will remove files
103 from the index if the corresponding files in the working tree
106 If no <filepattern> is given, default to "."; in other words,
107 update all tracked files in the current directory and its
112 Like `-u`, but match <filepattern> against files in the
113 working tree in addition to the index. That means that it
114 will find new files as well as staging modified content and
115 removing files that are no longer in the working tree.
119 Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
120 for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
121 useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
122 such files with `git diff` and committing them with `git commit
126 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
127 information in the index.
130 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
131 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
132 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
135 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
136 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
137 for command-line options).
143 The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a
144 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
145 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
146 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
152 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
153 and its subdirectories:
156 $ git add Documentation/\*.txt
159 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
160 example; this lets the command include the files from
161 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
163 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
169 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
170 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
175 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
176 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
177 interactive command loop.
179 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
180 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
181 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
182 and type return, like this:
186 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
187 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
191 You also could say `s` or `sta` or `status` above as long as the
194 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
198 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
199 committed if you say `git commit`), and between index and
200 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
201 `git commit` using `git add`) for each path. A sample output
206 1: binary nothing foo.png
207 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
210 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
211 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
212 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
213 version (if the working tree version were also different,
214 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
215 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
216 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
217 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
222 This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
223 prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
224 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
225 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
226 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
227 omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
228 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
230 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
235 1: binary nothing foo.png
236 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
239 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
246 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
247 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
251 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
252 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
253 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
257 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
258 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
262 This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
263 After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index
264 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
265 the change of each hunk. You can say:
268 n - do not stage this hunk
269 q - quit, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
270 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
271 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
272 g - select a hunk to go to
273 / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
274 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
275 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
276 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
277 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
278 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
279 e - manually edit the current hunk
282 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
283 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
287 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
292 linkgit:git-status[1]
296 linkgit:git-commit[1]
297 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
301 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
305 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
309 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite