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1 Answer. Then you can git commit a single file 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.
Save the file or files. Add only one file, or one part of the changed file: git add README.md. Commit the first set of changes: git commit -m "update the README to include links to contributing guide" Add another file, or another part of the changed file: git add CONTRIBUTING.md.
Your arguments are in the wrong order. Try git commit -m 'my notes' path/to/my/file.ext, or if you want to be more explicit, git commit -m 'my notes' -- path/to/my/file.ext.
Incidentally, Git v1.5.2.1 is 4.5 years old. You may want to update to a newer version (1.7.8.3 is the current release).
Try:
git commit -m 'my notes' path/to/my/file.ext
of if you are in the current directory, add ./ to the front of the path;
git commit -m 'my notes' ./path/to/my/file.ext
If you are in the folder which contains the file
git commit -m 'my notes' ./name_of_file.ext
Use the -o option.
git commit -o path/to/myfile -m "the message"
-o, --only commit only specified files
Specify the path after the entered commit message, like:
git commit -m "commit message" path/to/file.extension
For Git 1.9.5 on Windows 7: "my Notes" (double quotes) corrected this issue. In my case, putting the file(s) before or after the -m 'message' made no difference; using single quotes was the problem.
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