Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
- such files with 'git diff' and commiting them with 'git commit
+ such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit
-a'.
--refresh::
------------
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
-example; this lets the command to include the files from
+example; this lets the command include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
$ git add git-*.sh
------------
+
-Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
+Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
`subdir/git-foo.sh`.
update::
- This shows the status information and gives prompt
- "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
+ This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
+ prompt. 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. If the second number in a range is
patch::
- This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
- After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
+ This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
+ After choosing the path, it presents the 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
+ q - quit, do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining ones
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
+ g - select a hunk to go to
+ / - search for a hunk matching the given regex
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
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]