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Start your free trialJesse Kiwovele
7,767 PointsHello friends! how do you git add a file? check my answer below. Thanks.
I'm trying to git add on this code but I'm getting an error that needs me to specify after 'git add' i believe before 'chapter1.txt'
2 Answers
Tom Settle
5,127 PointsIf you want to git add a specific file it should be git add chapter1.txt
. Adding all changes staged would be git add .
Unsubscribed User
15,444 PointsJust to expand on Tom's answer, I find it more productive to perform a patch add
e.g.
git add foo.txt -p
or
git add foo.txt -patch
When you perform a patch add, instead of immediately adding all the changes in my file/s, it goes through each change and asks you what you want to do (e.g stage, don't stage, edit etc.). This helps eliminate any typos/syntax error I may have made, and also gives me a sanity check to ensure what I'm committing is actually related to my branch!
There's a lot of cool info on this over here
Regards,
Berian
Jesse Kiwovele
7,767 PointsJesse Kiwovele
7,767 PointsGot it! Thanks. I was adding a period at the end of my "txt"