GIT-ADD(1)							    Git Manual								GIT-ADD(1)

NAME

       git-add - Add file contents to the index

SYNOPSIS

       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 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 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.

       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 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 git add command can be used to add ignored files with the -f (force) option.

       Please see git-commit(1) for alternative ways to add content to a commit.

OPTIONS

       <filepattern>...
	   Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g.  *.c) can be given to add all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g.  dir to
	   add dir/file1 and dir/file2) can be given to add all files in the directory, recursively.

       -n, --dry-run
	   Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.

       -v, --verbose
	   Be verbose.

       -f, --force
	   Allow adding otherwise ignored files.

       -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
	   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 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 for
	   command-line options).

CONFIGURATION

       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 gitrepository-layout(5).

EXAMPLES

       o   Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation directory and its subdirectories:

	       .ft C
	       $ git add Documentation/*.txt
	       .ft

	   Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of
	   Documentation/ directory.

       o   Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:

	       .ft C
	       $ git add git-*.sh
	       .ft

	   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.

INTERACTIVE MODE

       When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the output of the status subcommand, and then goes into its interactive command
       loop.

       The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends with a single
       >, you can pick only one of the choices given and type return, like this:

	   .ft C
	       *** Commands ***
		 1: status	 2: update	 3: revert	 4: add untracked
		 5: patch	 6: diff	 7: quit	 8: help
	       What now> 1
	   .ft

       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 working tree
	   files (i.e. what you could stage further before git commit using git add) for each path. A sample output looks like this:

	       .ft C
			     staged	unstaged path
		    1:	     binary	 nothing foo.png
		    2:	   +403/-35	   +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
	       .ft

	   It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no difference between
	   indexed copy and the working tree version (if the working tree version were also different, binary would have been shown in place of
	   nothing). The other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
	   working tree file has further modifications (one addition and one deletion).

       update
	   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 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:

	       .ft C
			  staged     unstaged path
		 1:	  binary      nothing foo.png
	       * 2:	+403/-35	+1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
	       .ft

	   To remove selection, prefix the input with - like this:

	       .ft C
	       Update>> -2
	       .ft

	   After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.

       revert
	   This has a very similar UI to update, and the staged information for selected paths are reverted to that of the HEAD version. Reverting
	   new paths makes them untracked.

       add untracked
	   This has a very similar UI to update and revert, and lets you add untracked paths to the index.

       patch
	   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 that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.

       diff
	   This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between HEAD and index).

SEE ALSO

       git-status(1) git-rm(1) git-reset(1) git-mv(1) git-commit(1) git-update-index(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]>

DOCUMENTATION

       Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

	1. torvalds@osdl.org
	   mailto:torvalds@osdl.org

	2. git@vger.kernel.org
	   mailto:git@vger.kernel.org

Git 1.7.1							    07/05/2010								GIT-ADD(1)