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Due to PHPMD and PHPCS checks that run during a commit, I often need to modify files that have already been affected by "git add".
If I modify a file that is added, and retry the commit, the changes aren't recognized, so the commit will fail again.
I then need to "git reset" the files to un-add them, then re-"git add" them and run the commit again.
Question
Is there a way to update the files that are staged for a commit, without having to un-add and re-ad them?
I apologize if this is a duplicate. All my searches seem to only show results for different problems with similar words.
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When you are dealing with Git add, you have multiple options to add all modified files. Let’s look at a few scenarios to understand the possibilities. Let’s initialize a new project. In this project, we have added a ReadMe.txt file. We used the “git add” command to add the ReadMe.txt. The add command is not only for adding files.
git add [filename] selects that file, and moves it to the staging area, marking it for inclusion in the next commit. You can select all files, a directory, specific files, or even specific parts of a file for staging and commit. This means if you git add a deleted file the deletion is staged for commit.
The git add is a command, which adds changes in the working directory to the staging area. With the help of this command, you tell Git that you want to add updates to a certain file in the next commit.
Then, you have to use the commit command to make the changes official. When you are dealing with a lot of files and folders, it’s difficult to individually add each change. So you can use the following commands: $ git add .
In git, files (per se) aren't staged, changes are. So when you do git add <filename>, it is the current state of that file that is staged. If you change the file and want to add those changes as well, you just do another git add.
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You just git add the file again and commit.
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