Documentation/git-add.txt

   1 git-add(1)
   2 ==========
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-add - Add file contents to the index
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 [verse]
  11 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
  12           [--] <filepattern>...
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
  17 index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
  18
  19 The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
  20 is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit.  Thus
  21 after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
  22 the commit command, you must use the 'add' command to add any new or
  23 modified files to the index.
  24
  25 This command can be performed multiple times before a commit.  It only
  26 adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
  27 run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
  28 you must run 'git add' again to add the new content to the index.
  29
  30 The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
  31 files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
  32
  33 The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default.  If any
  34 ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
  35 will fail with a list of ignored files.  Ignored files reached by
  36 directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
  37 globs before the shell) will be silently ignored.  The 'add' command can
  38 be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
  39
  40 Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
  41 commit.
  42
  43
  44 OPTIONS
  45 -------
  46 <filepattern>...::
  47         Files to add content from.  Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
  48         be given to add all matching files.  Also a
  49         leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
  50         and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
  51         directory, recursively.
  52
  53 -n, \--dry-run::
  54         Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
  55
  56 -v, \--verbose::
  57         Be verbose.
  58
  59 -f::
  60         Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
  61
  62 -i, \--interactive::
  63         Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
  64         the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
  65         operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
  66         mode'' for details.
  67
  68 -p, \--patch::
  69         Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
  70         bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
  71         the specified filepatterns before exiting.
  72
  73 -u::
  74         Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar
  75         to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
  76         except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
  77         command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
  78         current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
  79
  80 \--refresh::
  81         Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
  82         information in the index.
  83
  84 \--::
  85         This option can be used to separate command-line options from
  86         the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
  87         for command-line options).
  88
  89
  90 Configuration
  91 -------------
  92
  93 The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
  94 file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
  95 $GIT_DIR/info/exclude.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
  96 those in info/exclude.  See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
  97
  98
  99 EXAMPLES
 100 --------
 101 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
 102
 103         Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation`
 104         directory and its subdirectories.
 105 +
 106 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
 107 example; this lets the command to include the files from
 108 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
 109
 110 git-add git-*.sh::
 111
 112         Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts.
 113         Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
 114         (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
 115         consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
 116
 117 Interactive mode
 118 ----------------
 119 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
 120 output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
 121 interactive command loop.
 122
 123 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
 124 gives a prompt "What now> ".  In general, when the prompt ends
 125 with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
 126 and type return, like this:
 127
 128 ------------
 129     *** Commands ***
 130       1: status       2: update       3: revert       4: add untracked
 131       5: patch        6: diff         7: quit         8: help
 132     What now> 1
 133 ------------
 134
 135 You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
 136 choice is unique.
 137
 138 The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
 139
 140 status::
 141
 142    This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
 143    committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
 144    working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
 145    "git commit" using "git-add") for each path.  A sample output
 146    looks like this:
 147 +
 148 ------------
 149               staged     unstaged path
 150      1:       binary      nothing foo.png
 151      2:     +403/-35        +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
 152 ------------
 153 +
 154 It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
 155 binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
 156 difference between indexed copy and the working tree
 157 version (if the working tree version were also different,
 158 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing').  The
 159 other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
 160 and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
 161 working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
 162 one deletion).
 163
 164 update::
 165
 166    This shows the status information and gives prompt
 167    "Update>>".  When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
 168    make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
 169    comma.  Also you can say ranges.  E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
 170    2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list.  You can say '*' to choose
 171    everything.
 172 +
 173 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
 174 like this:
 175 +
 176 ------------
 177            staged     unstaged path
 178   1:       binary      nothing foo.png
 179 * 2:     +403/-35        +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
 180 ------------
 181 +
 182 To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
 183 like this:
 184 +
 185 ------------
 186 Update>> -2
 187 ------------
 188 +
 189 After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
 190 contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
 191
 192 revert::
 193
 194   This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
 195   information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
 196   HEAD version.  Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
 197
 198 add untracked::
 199
 200   This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
 201   'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
 202
 203 patch::
 204
 205   This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
 206   After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
 207   and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
 208   the change of each hunk.  You can say:
 209
 210        y - stage this hunk
 211        n - do not stage this hunk
 212        a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
 213        d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
 214        j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
 215        J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
 216        k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
 217        K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
 218        s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
 219        ? - print help
 220 +
 221 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
 222 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
 223
 224 diff::
 225
 226   This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
 227   HEAD and index).
 228
 229
 230 See Also
 231 --------
 232 linkgit:git-status[1]
 233 linkgit:git-rm[1]
 234 linkgit:git-reset[1]
 235 linkgit:git-mv[1]
 236 linkgit:git-commit[1]
 237 linkgit:git-update-index[1]
 238
 239 Author
 240 ------
 241 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 242
 243 Documentation
 244 --------------
 245 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 246
 247 GIT
 248 ---
 249 Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite