6 git-add - Add file contents to the index
11 'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
12 [--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.
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.
91 Update files that git already knows about (same as '\--update')
92 and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore'
98 Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
99 for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
100 useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
101 such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit
105 Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
106 information in the index.
109 If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
110 them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
111 others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
114 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
115 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
116 for command-line options).
122 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
123 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
124 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
125 those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
131 * Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
132 and its subdirectories:
135 $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
138 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
139 example; this lets the command include the files from
140 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
142 * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
148 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
149 listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
154 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
155 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
156 interactive command loop.
158 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
159 gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
160 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
161 and type return, like this:
165 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
166 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
170 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
173 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
177 This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
178 committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
179 working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
180 "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
185 1: binary nothing foo.png
186 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
189 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
190 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
191 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
192 version (if the working tree version were also different,
193 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
194 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
195 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
196 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
201 This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
202 prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
203 make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
204 comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
205 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
206 omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
207 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
209 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
214 1: binary nothing foo.png
215 * 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
218 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
225 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
226 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
230 This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
231 information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
232 HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
236 This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
237 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
241 This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
242 After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index
243 and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
244 the change of each hunk. You can say:
247 n - do not stage this hunk
248 q - quite, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
249 a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
250 d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
251 j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
252 J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
253 k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
254 K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
255 s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
256 e - manually edit the current hunk
259 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
260 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
264 This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
269 linkgit:git-status[1]
273 linkgit:git-commit[1]
274 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
278 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
282 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
286 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite