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Development Tools Introduction to Git First Commits File Status

Jesse Kiwovele
Jesse Kiwovele
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Posted by Jesse Kiwovele
Jesse Kiwovele
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Hello friends! how do you git add a file? check my answer below. Thanks.

I'm trying to git add on this code but I'm getting an error that needs me to specify after 'git add' i believe before 'chapter1.txt'

2 Answers

Tom Settle
Tom Settle
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Tom Settle
Tom Settle
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If you want to git add a specific file it should be git add chapter1.txt. Adding all changes staged would be git add .

Jesse Kiwovele
Jesse Kiwovele
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Jesse Kiwovele
Jesse Kiwovele
7,767 Points

Got it! Thanks. I was adding a period at the end of my "txt"

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Just to expand on Tom's answer, I find it more productive to perform a patch add e.g.

git add foo.txt -p
or
git add foo.txt -patch

When you perform a patch add, instead of immediately adding all the changes in my file/s, it goes through each change and asks you what you want to do (e.g stage, don't stage, edit etc.). This helps eliminate any typos/syntax error I may have made, and also gives me a sanity check to ensure what I'm committing is actually related to my branch!

There's a lot of cool info on this over here

Regards,
Berian