How to git add multiple files from same folder without re-typing folder name?-CodePudding

I had to write git add src/index.css src/logo.svg, repeating 'src/' multiple times.

Is there a way that I can git add multiple files from the same folder without having to type the same folder name for every file?

CodePudding user response：

In this case,

cd src
git add index.css logo.svg

If there are not any irrelevant files under src/,

git add src

cd src
git add .

By the irrelevant files, I mean the untracked files that are not ignored. There could be some new files under src/ just for test. If they are not ignored, git add src or git add . will add them too, which is not expected. If a file is added by mistake, one of the solutions is

git reset path/to/file

Suppose there is only a small number of irrelevant files, foo.js and bar.js, we can also add all and exclude them by

cd src
git add . -- ':!foo.js' ':!bar.js'

If we use git add . or git add folder, better is to always run git status and have a check.

If the files you want to add have already been tracked before, not new untracked files, we can skip git add and use git commit -a to add and commit them in one step. For a new untracked file, we need to explicitly add it.