git-add - Add files to the index file.
git-add [-n] [-v] <file>…
A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index, for people used to do "cvs add".
Files to add to the index.
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
Be verbose.
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.
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.
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.
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
Part of the git(7) suite