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sledge_909
sledge_909

Reputation: 477

How to git add a whole folder

I'm new to git and I am trying to git add my whole working directory but I receive the error message:

fatal: pathspec 'folder' did not match any files.

I'm in the working dir when I do this command, what am I doing wrong? Also, is it good practice to commit the whole folder instead of file by file? Thank you

Upvotes: 23

Views: 172084

Answers (5)

Ramin Bakhtiyari
Ramin Bakhtiyari

Reputation: 39

you must type the folder's name between quotation marks.

here is the pseudo-code:

git add 'folder name'

Upvotes: 2

Mendi Barel
Mendi Barel

Reputation: 3677

If the folder contains space you need to enclose the name with quotation marks:

git add "New Folder/"

Upvotes: 3

Anas Laghouaouta
Anas Laghouaouta

Reputation: 105

I think your folder is not under git version control, or you ignored it.
try to run git add -A to add your folder

Upvotes: 2

Gauthier
Gauthier

Reputation: 41945

My guess is that you are trying to add folder while you already are in folder.

$ cd my_folder
$ git init
$ git add my_folder # this is not going to work

Instead, add everything in the folder, rather than the folder itself:

$ cd my_folder
$ git init
$ git add .

To your other question, adding whole folders is fine, but only relevant when adding sub-folders. Again, you can't git add the folder that is your repository (my_folder above).

$ cd my_folder
$ ls
my_subfolder  other_things
$ git add my_subfolder # this is fine

The usual way to add everything in your working tree to your repo is git add ..

Upvotes: 36

FallAndLearn
FallAndLearn

Reputation: 4135

You need to first check if you have added that folder in .gitignore file.

If not, then just do this. 

git add --all

or 

git add .

Upvotes: 16

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