Suppose I have a directory with a bunch of files and other directories in git.
If I do
git init .
git add .
I will be adding everything including the directories to my git repository. However, if I only want the files in the current directory to be added (no recursive traversal of directories), is there a non-manual way to do it?
The manual way would be to pick out the files using another tool and running git-add on these files.
Unfortunately, Git does not have a functionality like that built in. You can easily do it with a shell loop though. Assuming you're using bash, this would work:
#!/bin/bash
for f in `ls -A`; do
if [ -f $f ]; then
git add $f
fi
done
which will add all files from the current directory.
Note that like all bash scripts, you can write this on one line if you only need it once:
for f in $(ls -A); do if [ -f $f ]; then git add $f; fi; done
This is just a proof of concept script and could certainly be improved; e.g. it could first construct a list and then call git add once on that list.
One option is:
git add --interactive
which will allow you to pick files one by one. Could be onerous; but it would allow you to skip directories. And you've got this:
find . -depth 1 -and ! -type d -exec git add {} \;
Here is an example:
ebg@tsuki(26)$ find . -depth 1 -and ! -type d -print
./a
./b
ebg@tsuki(27)$ find . -depth 1 -and ! -type d -exec git add {} \;
ebg@tsuki(28)$ git status
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)
#
# new file: a
# new file: b
#
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# c/
Something like
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs git add --
perhaps?
The first part lists all files in the current directory (but not in subdirectories, due to -maxdepth), xargs appends this list as arguments to git add.
You can also try the more robust
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec git add -- \{\} \+
if your version of find supports it. (Or replace \+ by \;, but this will run slower.)
See also: Bash: How to list only files?
-maxdepth is supposed to handle.Depending on how your files and directories are named, there's always the trusty:
git add *.*
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