1git-add(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-add - Add files to the index file. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>... 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index, 15for people used to do "cvs add". 16 17 18OPTIONS 19------- 20<file>...:: 21 Files to add to the index. 22 23-n:: 24 Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist. 25 26-v:: 27 Be verbose. 28 29--:: 30 This option can be used to separate command-line options from 31 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken 32 for command-line options). 33 34 35DISCUSSION 36---------- 37 38The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files` 39command to list files that are not registered in the index and 40are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or 41`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things: 42 43. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and 44 the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories; 45 46. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not 47 run `git-update-index` on that path. 48 49 50EXAMPLES 51-------- 52git-add Documentation/\\*.txt:: 53 54 Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under 55 `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories. 56+ 57Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this 58example; this lets the command to include the files from 59subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. 60 61git-add git-*.sh:: 62 63 Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index. 64 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk 65 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not 66 add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index. 67 68 69Author 70------ 71Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 72 73Documentation 74-------------- 75Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 76 77GIT 78--- 79Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 80