6 git-add - Add file contents to the index
11 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
12 [--update | -u] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--]
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.
81 Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
82 content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
84 to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
85 except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
86 command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
87 current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
90 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
91 information in the index.
94 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
95 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
96 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
99 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
100 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
101 for command-line options).
107 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
108 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
109 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
110 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
116 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
117 and its subdirectories:
120 $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
123 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
124 example; this lets the command to include the files from
125 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
127 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
133 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
134 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
139 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
140 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
141 interactive command loop.
143 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
144 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
145 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
146 and type return, like this:
150 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
151 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
155 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
158 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
162 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
163 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
164 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
165 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
170 1: binary nothing foo.png
171 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
174 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
175 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
176 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
177 version (if the working tree version were also different,
178 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
179 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
180 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
181 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
186 This shows the status information and gives prompt
187 "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
188 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
189 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
190 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
193 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
198 1: binary nothing foo.png
199 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
202 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
209 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
210 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
214 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
215 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
216 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
220 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
221 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
225 This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
226 After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
227 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
228 the change of each hunk. You can say:
231 n - do not stage this hunk
232 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
233 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
234 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
235 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
236 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
237 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
238 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
241 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
242 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
246 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
251 The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
252 characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
253 used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
254 double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
258 linkgit:git-status[1]
262 linkgit:git-commit[1]
263 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
267 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
271 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
275 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite