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fernandohur
fernandohur

Reputation: 7154

Adding deep folders in git

When programming in java it is common to have file structures as deep as 

com/company/project/folder/subfolder

So when adding a file you have to type

git add com/company/project/folder/subfolder/SomeAwesomeClass.java

Is there a faster way? like some sort of git add-if-matches SomeAwesomeClass.java

Upvotes: 4

Views: 815

Answers (4)

malhobayyeb
malhobayyeb

Reputation: 2881

Try the following command:

git add *AwesomeClass.java

But this will add all files with that name under the current directory or any of its subdirectories as deep as possible.

If you want to add only a specific file inside a specific directory you can try:

git add *subfolder/SomeAwesomeClass.java

You can also try the following to add all files on a specific directory:

git add *subfolder/*

Note that there is no spaces before or after the asterisk symbol.

I have tried these on Mac OS X with the same exact scenario and it worked.

Upvotes: 2

fernandohur
fernandohur

Reputation: 7154

Ok, so I just cooked up a little recipe. A simple bash function that you can add to you .bash_profile

function add(){
    git add $(git status --porcelain | grep "$1" | cut -c 4-)
}

To use it you can just call add something and it will add any files that match, so if you have 2 files:

com/company/project/folder/subfoler/AwesomeClass.java
com/company/project/folder/subfoler/subfolder/CoolClass.java

You can call 

add Awesome

And it will add the AwesomeClass.java

Upvotes: 0

Chris Rice
Chris Rice

Reputation: 1430

If you intend to add the whole subdirectory, then you can simply git add the directory

git add com

If you really only want to add that one class, then the easiest solution is to do the Unix thing and compose commands together. In this case, the find command is the thing which is really good at finding files with a given name. You can pass the output of find to git in bash by surrounding the find command with $()

git add $(find . -name SomeAwesomeClass.java)

Upvotes: 2

Warren Dew
Warren Dew

Reputation: 8938

You can just type git add com unless there are other files in the directory structure that you don't want to add..

Upvotes: 1

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