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Steven Lu
Steven Lu

Reputation: 43547

How to add modified files in a directory to the index, but still ignore untracked files?

Usually I use git commit -a or git add -a to quickly add all of the files which are in the repo, which have been changed.

At times I want to commit a subset of what was changed. Here we specify them explicitly.

But I want to do something more nuanced now: Suppose my git repo has two sub projects inside of it and i want to make a commit for sub-project A, where I have inside the A/ dir (1) a bunch of temporary files not checked into git and which I do NOT want to add to the index, and (2) multiple files which have been checked in which have changed, which I want to add to the index in one fell swoop of a command.

I am aware that if I modify my gitignore to fully encapsulate all possible types of temporary files, then I may use add -a to achieve this easily. However this isn't really very practical because directories tend to accumulate "extra items" in them.

Does such a git command exist?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 84

Answers (1)

CB Bailey
CB Bailey

Reputation: 793109

Update all tracked files in A:

git add -u A

From documentation:

-u, --update

Update the index just where it already has an entry matching <pathspec>. This removes as well as modifies index entries to match the working tree, but adds no new files.

If no <pathspec> is given when -u option is used, all tracked files in the entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories).

Upvotes: 2

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