git add only modified changes and ignore untracked files

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I ran  git status  and listed below are some files that were modified or under the heading  changes not staged for commit   It also listed some untracked files that I want to ignore  I have a   gitignore  file in these directories    I want to put the modified files in staging so I can commit them   When I ran  git add     it added the modified files AND the files I want to ignore to staging   How do I add only the modified files and ignore the untracked files if presented with the git status below   Also  are my   gitignore  files working properly     git status   On branch addLocation   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    someProject path domain viewer LocationDO java         modified    someProject path service ld LdService java         modified    someProject path service ld LdServiceImpl java         modified    someProject path web jsf viewer LocationFormAction java         modified    someProject war WEB-INF classes message viewer viewer properties         modified    someProject war page viewer searchForm xhtml     Untracked files       use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed             metadata          someProject build  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a

User · Accepted Answer

Ideally your  gitignore should prevent the untracked   and ignored  files from being shown in status  added using git add etc  So I would ask you to correct your  gitignore  You can do git add -u so that it will stage the modified and deleted files   You can also do git commit -a to commit only the modified and deleted files   Note that if you have Git of version before 2 0 and used git add    then you would need to use git add -u    See  Difference of    git add -A    and    git add

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This worked for me      bin bash  git add  git status   grep modified   sed  s     modified  s          Or even better      git ls-files --modified   xargs git add

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Not sure if this is a feature or a bug but this worked for us   git commit    -m  Message    Note the empty file list      Git interprets this to commit all modified tracked files  even if they are not staged  and ignore untracked files

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git commit -a -m  message    -a   Includes all currently changed deleted files in this commit  Keep in mind  however  that untracked  new  files are not included  -m   Sets the commit s message

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To stage modified and deleted files  git add -u

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I happened to try this so I could see the list of files first   git status   grep  modified     awk   print  git add     2    gt  file sh  cat   file sh   execute   chmod a x file sh   file sh    Edit   see comments  This could be achieved in one step    git status   grep  modified     awk   print  2     xargs git add  amp  amp  git status

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You didn t say what s currently your  gitignore  but a  gitignore with the following contents in your root directory should do the trick    metadata build

[git] git add only modified changes and ignore untracked files

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