For Git 1.x $ git add -u This tells git to automatically stage tracked files — including deleting the previously tracked files. For Git 2.0 To stage your whole working tree: $ git add -u :/ To stage just the current path: $ git add -u .
git add -u git reset — main/dontcheckmein.txt Note: Git has subsequently added special syntax for this, which is explained in other answers.
there’s no problem – everything works as expected. In GitLab some branches can be protected. By default only Maintainer/Owner users can commit to protected branches (see permissions docs). master branch is protected by default – it forces developers to issue merge requests to be validated by project maintainers before integrating them into main code. You … Read more
Is this like in this git-add post? Manually editing the hunk is immensely powerful, but also a bit complicated if you’ve never done it before. The most important thing to keep in mind: The diff is always indented with one character in addition to whatever other indentation is there. The character can either be: a … Read more
Another way to make a directory stay (almost) empty (in the repository) is to create a .gitignore file inside that directory that contains these four lines: # Ignore everything in this directory * # Except this file !.gitignore Then you don’t have to get the order right the way that you have to do in … Read more
It is one of the git gotchas mentioned here (pre Git 2.0). git add . only adds what is there, not what has been deleted (if tracked). git add . git commit git status //hey! why didn’t it commit my deletes?, Oh yeah, silly me git add -u . git commit –amend git add -A … Read more
add * means add all files in the current directory, except for files whose name begin with a dot. This is your shell functionality and Git only ever receives a list of files. add . has no special meaning in your shell, and thus Git adds the entire directory recursively, which is almost the same, … Read more
For Git 1.x $ git add -u This tells git to automatically stage tracked files — including deleting the previously tracked files. For Git 2.0 To stage your whole working tree: $ git add -u :/ To stage just the current path: $ git add -u .
You should be able to recover any files back that you added to the index (e.g, as in your situation, with git add .) although it might be a bit of work. In order to add a file to the index, git adds it to the object database, which means it can be recovered so … Read more
You can undo git add before commit with git reset <file> which will remove it from the current index (the “about to be committed” list) without changing anything else. You can use git reset without any file name to unstage all due changes. This can come in handy when there are too many files to … Read more