Reputation: 2293

How to add multiple files to Git at the same time

This will be my first git use. I have added new files ( a lot ) to the folder/project ( git local repository).

I went through online tutorials and forums and see i can do

git commit -a

So I go to the base folder of the repository and do a

sudo git commit -a

But then, some screens comes up and asks me to add a comment which i do. i do not know how to proceed or exit. I do not want to mess up so i did ctrl + Z and did not do anything.

Can you guys please outline the commands I need to use?

git commit -a

and

git push?

Upvotes: 206

Answers (14)

Reggie Pinkham

Reputation: 12708

Basic Usage

Add individual files to your Git staging area using the git add command, followed by a list of space-separated filenames, which can include both file paths and extensions. For instance:

git add scripts/app.js images/logo.png

Advanced Usage

To streamline this process, Git offers the wildcard character asterisk *, which matches multiple files. For example, to add all files in your repository (excluding those in your .gitignore file):

git add *

For finer control, you can specify files by extension, like this:

git add *.jpg

Or to add all files within a specific folder:

git add images/*

Upvotes: 579

Abhishek Dwivedi

Reputation: 21

git add fil1 file2 -- File names are separated with space

git add *.java -- add file with pattern

git add . -- Add entire directory recursively

Upvotes: -1

Harish Kumawat

Reputation: 352

git init

a) for all files

git add -a

b) only specific folder

git add <folder1> <folder2> <etc.>

git commit -m "Your message about the commit"

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourUsername/yourRepository.git

git push -u origin master
git push origin master

if you are face this error than

 ! [rejected]        master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/harishkumawat2610/Qt5-with-C-plus-plus.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

Use this command

git push --force origin master

Upvotes: 6

caoanan

Reputation: 574

I use the command: git add *CMakeLists.txt, in order to add all the CmakeLists.txt files across the sub-directories:

z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\CMakeLists.txt
z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\tools\t1\src\CMakeLists.txt
z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\tools\TAF\VV\CMakeLists.txt
z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\tools\TAF\Executable\CMakeLists.txt
z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\tools\TAF\Recording\CMakeLists.txt
z:\Temp\proj_I2.21.09.24\Design\original\CMakeLists.txt

Upvotes: 1

Sudhakar Bala

Reputation: 1

Try this:

git add file1
git commit file1
git push 
git add file2
git commit file2 --amend
git push

Note: git commit without -m option will open an editor for your commit message.

Upvotes: 0

Ranjeet R Patil

Reputation: 491

To add all the changes you've made:

git add .

To add single folder:

git add directory path

To add multiple folders:

git add folder1 folder2 folder3 foldern

To commit all the changes:

git commit -m "message"

To push your committed changes from your local repository to your remote repository:

git push origin branch name

Upvotes: 4

stevec

Reputation: 52198

Simply use single quotations around each file name to ensure any with spaces work as expected

git add 'file1' 'file2' 'file3'

Upvotes: 15

Johnson Ogwuru

Reputation: 35

If you want to stage and commit all your files on Github do the following;

git add -A                                                                                
git commit -m "commit message"
git push origin master

Upvotes: 1

EliuX

Reputation: 12625

If you want to add multiple files in a given folder you can split them using {,}. This is awesome for not repeating long paths, e.g.

git add long/path/{file1,file2,...,filen}

Beware not to put spaces between the ,.

Upvotes: 16

Fabio Antunes

Reputation: 22852

As some have mentioned a possible way is using git interactive staging. This is great when you have files with different extensions

$ git add -i
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
  2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
  3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb

*** Commands ***
  1: status     2: update      3: revert     4: add untracked
  5: patch      6: diff        7: quit       8: help
What now>

If you press 2 then enter you will get a list of available files to be added:

What now> 2
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
  2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
  3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
Update>>

Now you just have to insert the number of the files you want to add, so if we wanted to add TODO and index.html we would type 1,2

Update>> 1,2
           staged     unstaged path
* 1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
* 2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
  3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
Update>>

You see the * before the number? that means that the file was added.

Now imagine that you have 7 files and you want to add them all except the 7th? Sure we could type 1,2,3,4,5,6 but imagine instead of 7 we have 16, that would be quite cumbersome, the good thing we don't need to type them all because we can use ranges,by typing 1-6

Update>> 1-6
           staged     unstaged path
* 1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
* 2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
* 3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
* 4:    unchanged        +5/-1 file4.html
* 5:    unchanged        +5/-1 file5.html
* 6:    unchanged        +5/-1 file6.html
  7:    unchanged        +5/-1 file7.html
Update>>

We can even use multiple ranges, so if we want from 1 to 3 and from 5 to 7 we type 1-3, 5-7:

Update>> 1-3, 5-7
           staged     unstaged path
* 1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
* 2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
* 3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
  4:    unchanged        +5/-1 file4.html
* 5:    unchanged        +5/-1 file5.html
* 6:    unchanged        +5/-1 file6.html
* 7:    unchanged        +5/-1 file7.html
Update>>

We can also use this to unstage files, if we type -number, so if we wanted to unstage file number 1 we would type -1:

Update>> -1
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
* 2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
* 3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
  4:    unchanged        +5/-1 file4.html
* 5:    unchanged        +5/-1 file5.html
* 6:    unchanged        +5/-1 file6.html
* 7:    unchanged        +5/-1 file7.html
Update>>

And as you can imagine we can also unstage a range of files, so if we type -range all the files on that range would be unstaged. If we wanted to unstage all the files from 5 to 7 we would type -5-7:

Update>> -5-7
           staged     unstaged path
  1:    unchanged        +0/-1 TODO
* 2:    unchanged        +1/-1 index.html
* 3:    unchanged        +5/-1 lib/simplegit.rb
  4:    unchanged        +5/-1 file4.html
  5:    unchanged        +5/-1 file5.html
  6:    unchanged        +5/-1 file6.html
  7:    unchanged        +5/-1 file7.html
Update>>

Upvotes: 62

nadalsol

Reputation: 361

You can also select multiple files like this

git add folder/subfolder/*

This will add all the files in the specified subfolder. Very useful when you edit a bunch of files but you just want to commit some of them...

Upvotes: 36

dax

Reputation: 10997

To add all the changes you've made:

git add .

To commit them:

git commit -m "MY MESSAGE HERE" #-m is the message flag

You can put those steps together like this:

git commit -a -m "MY MESSAGE HERE"

To push your committed changes from your local repository to your remote repository:

git push origin master

You might have to type in your username/password for github after this. Here's a good primer on using git. A bit old, but it covers what's going on really well.

Upvotes: 163

Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 992707

It sounds like git is launching your editor (probably vi) so that you can type a commit message. If you are not familiar with vi, it is easy to learn the basics. Alternatives are:

Use git commit -a -m "my first commit message" to specify the commit message on the command line (using this will not launch an editor)
Set the EDITOR environment variable to an editor that you are familiar with

Upvotes: 1

somi

Reputation: 115

When you change files or add a new ones in repository you first must stage them.

git add <file>

or if you want to stage all

git add .

By doing this you are telling to git what files you want in your next commit. Then you do:

git commit -m 'your message here'

You use

git push origin master

where origin is the remote repository branch and master is your local repository branch.

Upvotes: 4

How to add multiple files to Git at the same time

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