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When I git add a folder, the whole content and all subfolders are staged automatically. In case the folder contains subfolders which I do not want to commit, I have to unstage them manually and add them to .gitignore afterwards. The explicit unstaging feels like I'm doing something wrong here.
A solution would be to edit the .gitignore before adding. But in cases where the folder structure is very deep/complex this is a bit tricky, because it is easy to forget to ignore certain deeply nested files/folders.
What I was looking for is a step-wise add like SVN's --non-recursive, allowing to add folders level by level without staging the whole content. However I couldn't find this functionality for git add. So I'm wondering: What is the recommended git workflow for such a non-recursive add?
Considering that others had the exact opposite problem: Maybe the behavior I described above is an issue with my git version (1.9.1) / settings?
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Add All Files using Git Add. The easiest way to add all files to your Git repository is to use the “git add” command followed by the “-A” option for “all”. In this case, the new (or untracked), deleted and modified files will be added to your Git staging area.
It is important to note that git init will create a repository that includes subdirectories and their files—there is no need to create separate repositories nested within the planets repository, whether subdirectories are present from the beginning or added later.
The command git add can add files and folders in the working tree to the staging area. It also takes the pathname (extension) for the file or a directory. The git add command will recursively add all the files in that particular directory.
Enter git add --all at the command line prompt in your local project directory to add the files or changes to the repository. Enter git status to see the changes to be committed. Enter git commit -m '<commit_message>' at the command line to commit new files/changes to the local repository.
Adding a whole complex directory hierarchy is an unusual thing to do (and certainly not something that happens as part of the usual git development workflow), so git doesn't have a special feature for it. You can always use an external tool to assemble a list of files you want to add and feed that list to git add, e.g. to only add the files in the current directory non-recursively, do
git add $(find . -type f -maxdepth 1)
Alternatively, you could use
git ls-files --others --directory > file-list
to create a list of untracked files in your current directory, and edit it in an editor to remove everything you don't want to add. (Make sure to remove file-list itself.) You can then use
git add $(cat file-list)
to add the files and directories in the edited list. (Directories you leave in will still be added recursively).
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If you want to add only the files from the directory without any other subfolders you can do something like:
git add FolderName/\*.*
Where *.* means every file, from every file type. Folders don't have extensions so they won't pass.
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A simple alternative is to add a single file in the subdirectory, then you can proceed to add other files as desired.
git add somedir/goodfile
cd somedir
git add anotherfile
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