How do I commit only some files

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I have two projects  One is the  official  project and the second is a light modification  some files added   I created new branch and I put new files to them  But in during development some files common to both branches is changed   How do I commit only these files

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Get a list of files you want to commit     git status  Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory   modified    file1 modified    file2 modified    file3 modified    file4   Add the files to staging    git add file1 file2   Check to see what you are committing     git status  Changes to be committed     use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage       modified    file1     modified    file2  Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory       modified    file3     modified    file4   Commit the files with a commit message    git commit -m  Fixed files 1 and 2    If you accidentally commit the wrong files    git reset --soft HEAD 1   If you want to unstage the files and start over    git reset  Unstaged changes after reset  M file1 M file2 M file3 M file4

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You can commit some updated files  like this   git commit file1 file2 file5 -m  commit message

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Suppose you made changes to multiple files  like   File1 File2 File3 File4 File5  But you want to commit only changes of File1 and File3  There are two ways for doing this  1 Stage only these two files  using  git add file1 file2  then  commit git commit -m  quot your message quot   then push  git push  2 Direct commit git commit file1 file3 -m  quot my message quot   then push  git push  Actually first method is useful in case if we are modifying files regularly and staging them -- gt  Large Projects  generally Live projects  But if we are modifying files and not staging them then we can do direct commit -- gt  Small projects

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Some of this seems  incomplete    Groups of people are NOT going to know if they should use quotes etc    Add 1 specific file showing the location paths as well   git add JobManager Controllers APIs ProfileApiController cs   Commit   remember  commit is local only  it is not affecting any other system   git commit -m  your message      Push to remote repo  git push   this is after the commit and this attempts to Merge INTO the remote location you have instructed it to merge into    Other answer s  show the stash etc  which you sometimes will want to do

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I suppose you want to commit the changes to one branch and then make those changes visible in the other branch  In git you should have no changes on top of HEAD when changing branches   You commit only the changed files by   git commit  some files    Or if you are sure that you have a clean staging area you can  git add  some files          add  some files  to staging area git add  some more files     add  some more files  to staging area git commit                   commit  some files  and  some more files    If you want to make that commit available on both branches you do   git stash                       remove all changes from HEAD and save them somewhere else git checkout  lt other-project gt     change branches git cherry-pick  lt commit-id gt      pick a commit from ANY branch and apply it to the current git checkout  lt first-project gt     change to the other branch git stash pop                   restore all changes again

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If you have already staged files  simply unstage them   git reset HEAD  file-name-A ext   file-name-B ext    Then add them bit by bit back in

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I think you may also use the command line   git add -p  This allows you to review all your uncommited files  one by one and choose if you want to commit them or not  Then you have some options that will come up for each modification  I use the  quot y quot  for  quot yes I want to add this file quot  and the  quot n quot  for  quot no  I will commit this one later quot   Stage this hunk  y n q a d K g   e      As for the other options which are   q a d K g   e      I m not sure what they do  but I guess the  quot   quot  might help you out if you need to go deeper into details  The great thing about this is that you can then push your work  and create a new branch after and all the uncommited work will follow you on that new branch  Very useful if you have coded many different things and that you actually want to reorganise your work on github before pushing it  Hope this helps  I have not seen it said previously  if it was mentionned  my bad

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This is a simple approach if you don t have much code changes   1  git stash 2  git stash apply 3  remove the files code you don t want to commit 4  commit the remaining files code you do want     Then if you want the code you removed  bits you didn t commit  in a separate commit or another branch  then while still on this branch do   5  git stash apply 6  git stash   With step 5 as you already applied the stash and committed the code you did want in step 4  the diff and untracked in the newly applied stash is just the code you removed in step 3 before you committed in step 4     As such step 6 is a stash of the code you didn t  want to  commit  as you probably don t really want to lose those changes right  So the new stash from step 6 can now be committed to this or any other branch by doing git stash apply on the correct branch and committing   Obviously this presumes you do the steps in one flow  if you stash at any other point in these steps you ll need to note the stash ref for each step above  rather than just basic stash and apply the most recent stash

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