Create a new file in git bash

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I ve got Git for Windows running  I m not sure if it s supposed to function as a text editor though   I think I installed it with the Vim editor  but in a Git Bash shell how do I create a file  such as webpage html     git add webpage html   comes back as  fatal  pathspec  webpage html  did not match any files   because it tries to track a non-existing file   I understand I can create a new file on the github com interface  that s easy enough  I m wondering if I can create a new file  like echo in cmd  and whether this file will actually be blank  echo in cmd creates non-blank files  and how I can write into that file from the git bash shell   If not  I m guessing I should just create a new file in windows explorer  Is that the norm      Edit  Wow  I was new to all this when I asked the above  No  Git Bash isn t a text editor  it s a Windows version of the git facility on Unix  and only handles the file versioning  git add  git rm  and other git commands just handle how the version control file manager handles the files and folders  and the only things it changes as a result are in a hidden folder named  git  Sorry if this has confused anyone   I was confused at the time because  as the name suggests  Git Bash has bash shell commands shipped with it  not just git - e g  ls  list files   mkdir  make new folder   and -- what I was looking for -- touch  make a new file or update timestamp on existing file   and echo  print text to the command line  or direct that text to a file     I could have made my new file webpage html with   touch webpage html   Then written to it with   echo   lt  DOCTYPE html gt    gt  webpage html   Then appended lines to it with   echo   lt html   gt  gt  webpage html echo   lt head gt    gt  gt  webpage html   and so on - but I don t think there s any text editor  according to this list of commands   See this thread for details of setting up a text editor with Git on Windows

User · Accepted Answer

If you are using the Git Bash shell  you can use the following trick    gt  webpage html   This is actually the same as   echo     gt  webpage html   Then  you can use git add webpage html to stage the file

User · Answer

This is a very simple to create file in git bash at first write touch then file name with extension   for example  touch filename extension

User · Answer

Yes  it is  Just create files in the windows explorer and git automatically detects these files as currently untracked  Then add it with the command you already mentioned   git add does not create any files  See also http   gitref org basic  add  Github probably creates the file with touch and adds the file for tracking automatically  You can do this on the bash as well

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