NAME
----
-git-add - Add files to the index file.
+git-add - Add file contents to the index
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] <file>...
+[verse]
+'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
+ [--] <filepattern>...
DESCRIPTION
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-A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
-for people used to do "cvs add".
+This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
+index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
+
+The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
+is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus
+after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
+the commit command, you must use the 'add' command to add any new or
+modified files to the index.
+
+This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. It only
+adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
+run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
+you must run 'git add' again to add the new content to the index.
+
+The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
+files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
+
+The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any
+ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
+will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
+directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
+globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'add' command can
+be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
+
+Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
+commit.
OPTIONS
-------
-<file>...::
- Files to add to the index.
+<filepattern>...::
+ Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
+ be given to add all matching files. Also a
+ leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
+ and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
+ directory, recursively.
--n::
+-n, \--dry-run::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
--v::
+-v, \--verbose::
Be verbose.
+-f::
+ Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
+
+-i, \--interactive::
+ Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
+ the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
+ operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
+ mode'' for details.
-DISCUSSION
-----------
+-p, \--patch::
+ Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
+ bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
+ the specified filepatterns before exiting.
-The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
-command to list files that are not registerd in the index and
-are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
-`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
+-u::
+ Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
+ content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
+ is similar
+ to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
+ except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
+ command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
+ current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
-. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
- the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
+\--refresh::
+ Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
+ information in the index.
-. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
- run `git-update-index` on that path.
+\--::
+ This option can be used to separate command-line options from
+ the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
+ for command-line options).
+
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
+$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
EXAMPLES
--------
-git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
- Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
- `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
+* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
+and its subdirectories:
++
+------------
+$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
+------------
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
-git-add git-*.sh::
+* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
++
+------------
+$ git add git-*.sh
+------------
++
+Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
+listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
+`subdir/git-foo.sh`.
+
+Interactive mode
+----------------
+When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
+output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
+interactive command loop.
+
+The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
+gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
+with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
+and type return, like this:
+
+------------
+ *** Commands ***
+ 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
+ 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
+ What now> 1
+------------
+
+You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
+choice is unique.
- Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
- Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
- (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
- add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
+The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
+status::
+
+ This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
+ committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
+ working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
+ "git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
+ looks like this:
++
+------------
+ staged unstaged path
+ 1: binary nothing foo.png
+ 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
+------------
++
+It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
+binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
+difference between indexed copy and the working tree
+version (if the working tree version were also different,
+'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
+other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
+and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
+working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
+one deletion).
+
+update::
+
+ This shows the status information and gives prompt
+ "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
+ make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
+ comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
+ 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
+ everything.
++
+What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
+like this:
++
+------------
+ staged unstaged path
+ 1: binary nothing foo.png
+* 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
+------------
++
+To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
+like this:
++
+------------
+Update>> -2
+------------
++
+After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
+contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
+
+revert::
+
+ This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
+ information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
+ HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
+
+add untracked::
+
+ This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
+ 'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
+
+patch::
+
+ This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
+ After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
+ and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
+ the change of each hunk. You can say:
+
+ y - stage this hunk
+ n - do not stage this hunk
+ a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
+ d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
+ j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
+ J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
+ k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
+ K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
+ s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
+ ? - print help
++
+After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
+that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
+
+diff::
+
+ This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
+ HEAD and index).
+
+Bugs
+----
+The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
+characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
+used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
+double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
+
+See Also
+--------
+linkgit:git-status[1]
+linkgit:git-rm[1]
+linkgit:git-reset[1]
+linkgit:git-mv[1]
+linkgit:git-commit[1]
+linkgit:git-update-index[1]
Author
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GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite