Brief Answer: git add -A is equal to git add . + git add -u Explanation: When you do a “git add .“, it adds all files (existing, modified and new) to the staging area but it does not remove files that have been deleted from the disk. “git add -u” only adds currently tracked … Read more
here’s a way: use git diff > patch to make a patch of the current diff. use gawk to make a second patch only of +/- lines matching the pattern: remove – from deleted lines not matching the pattern, delete + lines not matching the pattern, modify the hunk header line numbers, output each modified … Read more
Please try git diff –staged command. Alternative options available are listed below. git diff shows changes between index/staging and working files. Since, in your case, git add moved your files-with-changes to staging area, there were no modifications shown/seen. git diff –staged shows changes between HEAD and index/staging. git diff –cached also does the same thing. … Read more
Have a look at the record extension (which comes bundled with Mercurial). Note that since Mercurial doesn’t have the concept of the staging area like git, running hg record will simply allow you to examine, hunk by hunk, the modifications in your working copy. Any changes you choose to record will be committed, and any … Read more
The solution for my case ended up being to simply use a wildcard in the directory path, since the files were grouped: git checkout –theirs directory_name/* git add directory_name/* This may also work, according to helios456: git checkout –theirs directory_name/.
It’s a bug in the documentation. Quote the asterisk with $ git add documentation/\*.screen or $ git add ‘documentation/*.screen’ to get the behavior you want. If instead you want to add files in the current directory only, use $ git add *.screen UPDATE: I submitted a patch that corrects the issue, now fixed as of … Read more
Have you tried git add . This recurses into sub-directories, whereas I don’t think * does. See here
Your origin repository is ahead of your local repository. You’ll need to pull down changes from the origin repository as follows before you can push. This can be executed between your commit and push. git pull origin development development refers to the branch you want to pull from. If you want to pull from master … Read more
For unix-like systems you can always use the star to point to files, e.g. git add *DSManager.java will include all DSManager.java files git can find within your source tree starting in your current working directory.
If you have a mix of modified and deleted files and only want to stage deleted files to the index, you can use git ls-files as a filter. git ls-files –deleted | xargs git add If you only want this to apply to part of the file tree, give one or more subdirectories as arguments … Read more