SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
- [--] <filepattern>...
+'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
+ [--all | [--update | -u]] [--intent-to-add | -N]
+ [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
directory, recursively.
--n, \--dry-run::
+-n::
+--dry-run::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
--v, \--verbose::
+-v::
+--verbose::
Be verbose.
-f::
+--force::
Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
--i, \--interactive::
+-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.
--p, \--patch::
+-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.
-u::
+--update::
Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
is similar
command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
-\--refresh::
+-A::
+--all::
+ Update files that git already knows about (same as '\--update')
+ and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore'
+ mechanism.
+
+
+-N::
+--intent-to-add::
+ 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 committing them with 'git commit
+ -a'.
+
+--refresh::
Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
information in the index.
+--ignore-errors::
+ If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
+ them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
+ others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
+
\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
EXAMPLES
--------
-git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
- Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation`
- directory and its subdirectories.
+* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
+and its subdirectories:
++
+------------
+$ 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.
- Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
- (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
- consider `subdir/git-foo.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
----------------
"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.
+ 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
+ omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
+ 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
+
What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
like this:
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
+ e - manually edit the current hunk
? - print help
+
After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
-See Also
+SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-status[1]
linkgit:git-rm[1]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite