SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
- [--] <filepattern>...
+'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
+ [--edit | -e] [--all | [--update | -u]] [--intent-to-add | -N]
+ [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] [<filepattern>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
-index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
+This command updates the index using the current content found in
+the working tree, to prepare the content staged for the next commit.
+It typically adds the current content of existing paths as a whole,
+but with some options it can also be used to add content with
+only part of the changes made to the working tree files applied, or
+remove paths that do not exist in the working tree anymore.
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
+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.
+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
+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'
+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
+globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'git 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
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::
- 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.
+-p::
+--patch::
+ Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the
+ work tree and add them to the index. This gives the user a chance
+ to review the difference before adding modified contents to the
+ index.
++
+This effectively runs `add --interactive`, but bypasses the
+initial command menu and directly jumps to the `patch` subcommand.
+See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
+
+-e, \--edit::
+ Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user
+ edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers
+ and apply the patch to the index.
++
+*NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character
+on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer
+apply.
-u::
- Update only files that git already knows about. 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.
-
-\--refresh::
+--update::
+ Only match <filepattern> against already tracked files in
+ the index rather than the working tree. That means that it
+ will never stage new files, but that it will stage modified
+ new contents of tracked files and that it will remove files
+ from the index if the corresponding files in the working tree
+ have been removed.
++
+If no <filepattern> is given, default to "."; in other words,
+update all tracked files in the current directory and its
+subdirectories.
+
+-A::
+--all::
+ Like `-u`, but match <filepattern> against files in the
+ working tree in addition to the index. That means that it
+ will find new files as well as staging modified content and
+ removing files that are no longer in the working tree.
+
+-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
Configuration
-------------
-The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
+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
------------
+
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`.
What now> 1
------------
-You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
+You also could say `s` or `sta` or `status` above as long as the
choice is unique.
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
+ 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
+ `git commit` using `git add`) for each path. A sample output
looks like this:
+
------------
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. 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:
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
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
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
+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