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plenderj
plenderj

Reputation: 193

Check in single file in Git?

My apologies if this is a silly question but I'm a VSS/VSTS guy trying to convert to Git :)

I cloned a repository and pulled down a load of Visual Studio projects. While working on those projects I noticed that another developer had submitted an invalid .sql file. I fixed that .sql file for them, but am now unsure how to check in just that .sql file

My code changes are all half-baked so they can't be checked in at present. I have Git Extensions on my computer, and when I right click on the file in Windows Explorer and go Git Extensions -> Commit, there are lots of files referenced on the left. The file I want to check in has a symbol of a pencil, and the mass of other files all have a green + symbol.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 36283

Answers (5)

Tim Bodeit
Tim Bodeit

Reputation: 9693

With current versions of git you can also do:

git commit <filename>

This will commit everything in that file and only that file. What is currently staged to the index doesn't matter.

Some versions of git require additional arguments to be placed before the filename. This includes -m <message>.

Upvotes: 0

Mot
Mot

Reputation: 29580

SmartGit can commit working tree changes from individual files even if other files are staged.

Upvotes: 0

Paul R
Paul R

Reputation: 213059

It's probably safest/easiest to do it from the command line:

$ git add foo.sql
$ git commit -m "Fixed foo.sql"

This just commits the file foo.sql. Before the commit you can do:

$ git status

to confirm that only the required file will be committed (it will list the other modified files separately, but they will not be "staged" for the next commit).

Upvotes: 4

johnny
johnny

Reputation: 4164

If you can use gitbash or something similar, use git add <filename>.

Upvotes: 0

knittl
knittl

Reputation: 265547

you only need to add the changes in the sql file to the index and run git commit.

git add path/to/file.sql
git commit -m 'fixed broken sql file'

don't worry about your other changes, as long as you haven't added them, they won't be committed (to make sure there are no changes in the index, run git reset before adding the other change)

Upvotes: 18

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