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git-add(1)
==========
 
NAME
----
git-add - Add files to the index file
 
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
 
DESCRIPTION
-----------
A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
for people used to do "cvs add".
 
It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
"git update-index --add".
 
OPTIONS
-------
<file>...::
	Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]).
 
-n::
        Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
 
-v::
        Be verbose.
 
\--::
	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).
 
 
DISCUSSION
----------
 
The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
command to list files that are not registered in the index and
are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
`.gitignore` file in each directory.  This means two things:
 
. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
  the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
 
. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
  run `git-update-index` on that path.
 
 
EXAMPLES
--------
git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
 
	Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
	`Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
 
git-add git-*.sh::
 
	Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
	Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
	(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
	add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
 
See Also
--------
gitlink:git-rm[1]
gitlink:git-ls-files[1]
 
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 
Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
GIT
---
Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite