Documentation/git-add.txt

   1 git-add(1)
   2 ==========
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-add - Add files to the index file
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
  11
  12 DESCRIPTION
  13 -----------
  14 A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
  15 for people used to do "cvs add".
  16
  17 It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
  18 "git update-index --add".
  19
  20 OPTIONS
  21 -------
  22 <file>...::
  23         Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]).
  24
  25 -n::
  26         Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
  27
  28 -v::
  29         Be verbose.
  30
  31 \--::
  32         This option can be used to separate command-line options from
  33         the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
  34         for command-line options).
  35
  36
  37 DISCUSSION
  38 ----------
  39
  40 The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
  41 command to list files that are not registered in the index and
  42 are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
  43 `.gitignore` file in each directory.  This means two things:
  44
  45 . You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
  46   the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
  47
  48 . Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
  49   run `git-update-index` on that path.
  50
  51
  52 EXAMPLES
  53 --------
  54 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
  55
  56         Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
  57         `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
  58 +
  59 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
  60 example; this lets the command to include the files from
  61 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
  62
  63 git-add git-*.sh::
  64
  65         Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
  66         Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
  67         (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
  68         add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
  69
  70 See Also
  71 --------
  72 gitlink:git-rm[1]
  73 gitlink:git-ls-files[1]
  74
  75 Author
  76 ------
  77 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  78
  79 Documentation
  80 --------------
  81 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  82
  83 GIT
  84 ---
  85 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  86