How to add multiple files to Git at the same time

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This will be my first git use  I have added new files   a lot   to the folder project   git local repository   I went through online tutorials and forums and see i can do git commit -a  So I go to the base folder of the repository and do a sudo git commit -a  But then  some screens comes up and asks me to add a comment which i do  i do not know how to proceed or exit  I do not want to mess up so i did ctrl   Z and did not do anything  Can you guys please outline the commands I need to use  git commit -a   and git push

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When you change files or add a new ones in repository you first must stage them.

git add <file>

or if you want to stage all

git add .

By doing this you are telling to git what files you want in your next commit. Then you do:

git commit -m 'your message here'

You use

git push origin master

where origin is the remote repository branch and master is your local repository branch.

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To add all the changes you ve made   git add    To commit them   git commit -m  MY MESSAGE HERE   -m is the message flag  You can put those steps together like this   git commit -a -m  MY MESSAGE HERE   To push your committed changes from your local repository to your remote repository   git push origin master   You might have to type in your username password for github after this   Here s a good primer on using git   A bit old  but it covers what s going on really well

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step1   git init    step2   a  for all files  git add -a   b  only specific folder  git add  lt folder1 gt   lt folder2 gt   lt etc  gt     step3   git commit -m  Your message about the commit     step4     git remote add origin https   github com yourUsername yourRepository git    step5   git push -u origin master git push origin master   if you are face this error than      rejected         master - gt  master  fetch first  error  failed to push some refs to  https   github com harishkumawat2610 Qt5-with-C-plus-plus git  hint  Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint  not have locally  This is usually caused by another repository pushing hint  to the same ref  You may want to first integrate the remote changes hint   e g    git pull       before pushing again  hint  See the  Note about fast-forwards  in  git push --help  for details     Use this command  git push --force origin master

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As some have mentioned a possible way is using git interactive staging  This is great when you have files with different extensions    git add -i            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb      Commands       1  status     2  update      3  revert     4  add untracked   5  patch      6  diff        7  quit       8  help What now gt    If you press 2  then enter you will get a list of available files to be added   What now gt  2            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb Update gt  gt    Now you just have to insert the number of the files you want to add  so if we wanted to add TODO and index html we would type 1 2  Update gt  gt  1 2            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb Update gt  gt    You see the    before the number  that means that the file was added    Now imagine that you have 7 files and you want to add them all except the 7th  Sure we could type 1 2 3 4 5 6 but imagine instead of 7 we have 16  that would be quite cumbersome  the good thing we don t need to type them all because we can use ranges by typing 1-6  Update gt  gt  1-6            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb   4     unchanged         5 -1 file4 html   5     unchanged         5 -1 file5 html   6     unchanged         5 -1 file6 html   7     unchanged         5 -1 file7 html Update gt  gt    We can even use multiple ranges  so if we want from 1 to 3 and from 5 to 7 we type 1-3  5-7   Update gt  gt  1-3  5-7            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb   4     unchanged         5 -1 file4 html   5     unchanged         5 -1 file5 html   6     unchanged         5 -1 file6 html   7     unchanged         5 -1 file7 html Update gt  gt    We can also use this to unstage files  if we type -number  so if we wanted to unstage file number 1 we would type -1   Update gt  gt  -1            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb   4     unchanged         5 -1 file4 html   5     unchanged         5 -1 file5 html   6     unchanged         5 -1 file6 html   7     unchanged         5 -1 file7 html Update gt  gt    And as you can imagine we can also unstage a range of files  so if we type -range all the files on that range would be unstaged  If we wanted to unstage all the files from 5 to 7 we would type -5-7   Update gt  gt  -5-7            staged     unstaged path   1     unchanged         0 -1 TODO   2     unchanged         1 -1 index html   3     unchanged         5 -1 lib simplegit rb   4     unchanged         5 -1 file4 html   5     unchanged         5 -1 file5 html   6     unchanged         5 -1 file6 html   7     unchanged         5 -1 file7 html Update gt  gt

User · Answer

If you want to add multiple files in a given folder you can split them using      This is awesome for not repeating long paths  e g   git add long path  file1 file2     filen    Beware not to put spaces between the

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Simply use single quotations around each file name to ensure any with spaces work as expected git add  file1   file2   file3

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You can also select multiple files like this  git add folder subfolder     This will add all the files in the specified subfolder  Very useful when you edit a bunch of files but you just want to commit some of them

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It sounds like git is launching your editor  probably vi  so that you can type a commit message  If you are not familiar with vi  it is easy to learn the basics  Alternatives are    Use git commit -a -m  my first commit message  to specify the commit message on the command line  using this will not launch an editor  Set the EDITOR environment variable to an editor that you are familiar with

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Use the git add command  followed by a list of space-separated filenames  Include paths if in other directories  e g  directory-name file-name  git add file-1 file-2 file-3

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If you want to stage and commit all your files on Github do the following   git add -A                                                                                 git commit -m  commit message  git push origin master

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