NAME
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-git-add - Add files to the index file.
+git-add - Add file contents to the changeset to be committed next
SYNOPSIS
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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".
+All the changed file contents to be committed together in a single set
+of changes must be "added" with the 'add' command before using the
+'commit' command. This is not only for adding new files. Even modified
+files must be added to the set of changes about to be committed.
+
+This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. The added
+content corresponds to the state of specified file(s) at the time the
+'add' command is used. This means the 'commit' command will not consider
+subsequent changes to already added content if it is not added again before
+the commit.
+
+The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included
+for the next commit.
+
+This command only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
+"git update-index --add".
+
+Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
+commit.
OPTIONS
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<file>...::
- Files to add to the index.
+ Files to add content from.
-n::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
-v::
Be verbose.
---::
+\--::
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).
-DISCUSSION
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-
-The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
-command to list files that are not registered in the index and
-are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
-`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
-
-. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
- the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
-
-. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
- run `git-update-index` on that path.
-
-
EXAMPLES
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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.
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
git-add git-*.sh::
- Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
+ Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts.
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.
+ consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
See Also
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+gitlink:git-status[1]
gitlink:git-rm[1]
+gitlink:git-mv[1]
+gitlink:git-commit[1]
+gitlink:git-update-index[1]
Author
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