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 Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the
76 work tree and add them to the index. This gives the user a chance
77 to review the difference before adding modified contents to the
80 This effectively runs ``add --interactive``, but bypasses the
81 initial command menu and directly jumps to `patch` subcommand.
82 See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
85 Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user
86 edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers
87 and apply the patch to the index.
89 *NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character
90 on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer
95 Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
96 content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
98 to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
99 except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
100 command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
101 current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
105 Update files that git already knows about (same as '\--update')
106 and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore'
112 Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
113 for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
114 useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
115 such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit
119 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
120 information in the index.
123 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
124 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
125 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
128 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
129 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
130 for command-line options).
136 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
137 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
138 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
139 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
145 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
146 and its subdirectories:
149 $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
152 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
153 example; this lets the command include the files from
154 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
156 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
162 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
163 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
168 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
169 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
170 interactive command loop.
172 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
173 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
174 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
175 and type return, like this:
179 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
180 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
184 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
187 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
191 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
192 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
193 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
194 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
199 1: binary nothing foo.png
200 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
203 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
204 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
205 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
206 version (if the working tree version were also different,
207 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
208 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
209 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
210 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
215 This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
216 prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
217 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
218 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
219 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
220 omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
221 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
223 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
228 1: binary nothing foo.png
229 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
232 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
239 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
240 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
244 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
245 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
246 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
250 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
251 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
255 This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
256 After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index
257 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
258 the change of each hunk. You can say:
261 n - do not stage this hunk
262 q - quit, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
263 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
264 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
265 g - select a hunk to go to
266 / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
267 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
268 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
269 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
270 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
271 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
272 e - manually edit the current hunk
275 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
276 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
280 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
285 linkgit:git-status[1]
289 linkgit:git-commit[1]
290 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
294 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
298 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
302 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite