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NAME
       git-add - Add file contents to the index

SYNOPSIS
       git add [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
		 [--edit | -e] [--[no-]all | --[no-]ignore-removal | [--update | -u]] [--sparse]
		 [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing] [--renormalize]
		 [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--pathspec-from-file=<file> [--pathspec-file-nul]]
		 [--] [<pathspec>...]


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 tree, 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
       <pathspec>...
	   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 update the index to
	   match the current state of the directory as a whole (e.g.
	   specifying dir will record not just a file dir/file1 modified in
	   the working tree, a file dir/file2 added to the working tree, but
	   also a file dir/file3 removed from the working tree). Note that
	   older versions of Git used to ignore removed files; use --no-all
	   option if you want to add modified or new files but ignore removed
	   ones.

	   For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the pathspec
	   entry in gitglossary(7).

       -n, --dry-run
	   Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist and/or will
	   be ignored.

       -v, --verbose
	   Be verbose.

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

       --sparse
	   Allow updating index entries outside of the sparse-checkout cone.
	   Normally, git add refuses to update index entries whose paths do
	   not fit within the sparse-checkout cone, since those files might be
	   removed from the working tree without warning. See git-sparse-
	   checkout(1) for more details.

       -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.

	   The intent of this option is to pick and choose lines of the patch
	   to apply, or even to modify the contents of lines to be staged.
	   This can be quicker and more flexible than using the interactive
	   hunk selector. However, it is easy to confuse oneself and create a
	   patch that does not apply to the index. See EDITING PATCHES below.

       -u, --update
	   Update the index just where it already has an entry matching
	   <pathspec>. This removes as well as modifies index entries to match
	   the working tree, but adds no new files.

	   If no <pathspec> is given when -u option is used, all tracked files
	   in the entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to
	   limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories).

       -A, --all, --no-ignore-removal
	   Update the index not only where the working tree has a file
	   matching <pathspec> but also where the index already has an entry.
	   This adds, modifies, and removes index entries to match the working
	   tree.

	   If no <pathspec> is given when -A option is used, all files in the
	   entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to limit
	   the update to the current directory and its subdirectories).

       --no-all, --ignore-removal
	   Update the index by adding new files that are unknown to the index
	   and files modified in the working tree, but ignore files that have
	   been removed from the working tree. This option is a no-op when no
	   <pathspec> is used.

	   This option is primarily to help users who are used to older
	   versions of Git, whose "git add <pathspec>..." was a synonym for
	   "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.

       -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. The configuration
	   variable add.ignoreErrors can be set to true to make this the
	   default behaviour.

       --ignore-missing
	   This option can only be used together with --dry-run. By using this
	   option the user can check if any of the given files would be
	   ignored, no matter if they are already present in the work tree or
	   not.

       --no-warn-embedded-repo
	   By default, git add will warn when adding an embedded repository to
	   the index without using git submodule add to create an entry in
	   .gitmodules. This option will suppress the warning (e.g., if you
	   are manually performing operations on submodules).

       --renormalize
	   Apply the "clean" process freshly to all tracked files to forcibly
	   add them again to the index. This is useful after changing
	   core.autocrlf configuration or the text attribute in order to
	   correct files added with wrong CRLF/LF line endings. This option
	   implies -u. Lone CR characters are untouched, thus while a CRLF
	   cleans to LF, a CRCRLF sequence is only partially cleaned to CRLF.

       --chmod=(+|-)x
	   Override the executable bit of the added files. The executable bit
	   is only changed in the index, the files on disk are left unchanged.

       --pathspec-from-file=<file>
	   Pathspec is passed in <file> instead of commandline args. If <file>
	   is exactly - then standard input is used. Pathspec elements are
	   separated by LF or CR/LF. Pathspec elements can be quoted as
	   explained for the configuration variable core.quotePath (see git-
	   config(1)). See also --pathspec-file-nul and global
	   --literal-pathspecs.

       --pathspec-file-nul
	   Only meaningful with --pathspec-from-file. Pathspec elements are
	   separated with NUL character and all other characters are taken
	   literally (including newlines and quotes).

       --
	   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).

EXAMPLES
       o   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 include the files from subdirectories of
	   Documentation/ directory.

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

	       $ git add git-*.sh

	   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:

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


       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:

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

	   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:

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

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

	       Update>> -2

	   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 select one of the following options and type
	   return:

	       y - stage this hunk
	       n - do not stage this hunk
	       q - quit; do not stage this hunk or any of the remaining ones
	       a - stage this hunk and all later hunks in the file
	       d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later 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.

	   You can omit having to type return here, by setting the
	   configuration variable interactive.singleKey to true.

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

EDITING PATCHES
       Invoking git add -e or selecting e from the interactive hunk selector
       will open a patch in your editor; after the editor exits, the result is
       applied to the index. You are free to make arbitrary changes to the
       patch, but note that some changes may have confusing results, or even
       result in a patch that cannot be applied. If you want to abort the
       operation entirely (i.e., stage nothing new in the index), simply
       delete all lines of the patch. The list below describes some common
       things you may see in a patch, and which editing operations make sense
       on them.

       added content
	   Added content is represented by lines beginning with "+". You can
	   prevent staging any addition lines by deleting them.

       removed content
	   Removed content is represented by lines beginning with "-". You can
	   prevent staging their removal by converting the "-" to a " "
	   (space).

       modified content
	   Modified content is represented by "-" lines (removing the old
	   content) followed by "+" lines (adding the replacement content).
	   You can prevent staging the modification by converting "-" lines to
	   " ", and removing "+" lines. Beware that modifying only half of the
	   pair is likely to introduce confusing changes to the index.

       There are also more complex operations that can be performed. But
       beware that because the patch is applied only to the index and not the
       working tree, the working tree will appear to "undo" the change in the
       index. For example, introducing a new line into the index that is in
       neither the HEAD nor the working tree will stage the new line for
       commit, but the line will appear to be reverted in the working tree.

       Avoid using these constructs, or do so with extreme caution.

       removing untouched content
	   Content which does not differ between the index and working tree
	   may be shown on context lines, beginning with a " " (space). You
	   can stage context lines for removal by converting the space to a
	   "-". The resulting working tree file will appear to re-add the
	   content.

       modifying existing content
	   One can also modify context lines by staging them for removal (by
	   converting " " to "-") and adding a "+" line with the new content.
	   Similarly, one can modify "+" lines for existing additions or
	   modifications. In all cases, the new modification will appear
	   reverted in the working tree.

       new content
	   You may also add new content that does not exist in the patch;
	   simply add new lines, each starting with "+". The addition will
	   appear reverted in the working tree.

       There are also several operations which should be avoided entirely, as
       they will make the patch impossible to apply:

       o   adding context (" ") or removal ("-") lines

       o   deleting context or removal lines

       o   modifying the contents of context or removal lines

CONFIGURATION
       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
       the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's
       found there:

       add.ignoreErrors, add.ignore-errors (deprecated)
	   Tells git add to continue adding files when some files cannot be
	   added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the --ignore-errors
	   option of git-add(1).  add.ignore-errors is deprecated, as it does
	   not follow the usual naming convention for configuration variables.

       add.interactive.useBuiltin
	   Set to false to fall back to the original Perl implementation of
	   the interactive version of git-add(1) instead of the built-in
	   version. Is true by default.

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

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.38.4			  05/16/2024			    GIT-ADD(1)