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 30DISCUSSION 31---------- 32 33The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files` 34command to list files that are not registered in the index and 35are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or 36`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things: 37 38. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and 39 the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories; 40 41. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not 42 run `git-update-index` on that path. 43 44 45EXAMPLES 46-------- 47git-add Documentation/\\*.txt:: 48 49 Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under 50 `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories. 51+ 52Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this 53example; this lets the command to include the files from 54subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. 55 56git-add git-*.sh:: 57 58 Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index. 59 Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk 60 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not 61 add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index. 62 63 64Author 65------ 66Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 67 68Documentation 69-------------- 70Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 71 72GIT 73--- 74Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 75