Add all files to a commit except a single file

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I have a bunch of files in a changeset  but I want to specifically ignore a single modified file  Looks like this after git status     modified    main dontcheckmein txt   deleted     main plzcheckmein c   deleted     main plzcheckmein2 c       Is there a way I can do git add but just ignore the one text file I don t want to touch  Something like   git add -u -except main dontcheckmein txt

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Now git supports exclude certain paths and files by pathspec magic   exclude  and its short form     So you can easily achieve it as the following command  git add --all --   main dontcheckmein txt git add --     main dontcheckmein txt  Actually you can specify more  git add --all --   path to file1   path to file2   path to folder1   git add --     path to file1   path to file2   path to folder1    For Mac and Linux  surround each file folder path with quotes git add --all --    path to file1     path to file2     path to folder1

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I use git add --patch quite a bit and wanted something like this to avoid having to hit d all the time through the same files  I whipped up a very hacky couple of git aliases to get the job done    alias      HELPER-CHANGED-FILTERED     f     git status --porcelain   cut -c4-           1       amp  amp  egrep -v    1      cat       f      ap                          git add --patch --   git HELPER-CHANGED-FILTERED  min  js css       echo  THIS FILE PROBABLY DOESNT EXIST       In my case I just wanted to ignore certain minified files all the time  but you could make it use an environment variable like  GIT EXCLUDE PATTERN for a more general use case

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For the specific case in the question  easiest way would be to add all files with  c extension and leave out everything else   git add   c   From git-scm  or and man git add       git add  lt pathspec gt           Files to add content from  Fileglobs  e g    c  can be given to add all matching files   lt        Note that this means that you could also do something like   git add    main     to add all files  that are not ignored  that are in the main folder  You can even go wild with more elaborate patterns   git add    s c  Service    The above will add all files that are in s any char c folder and have Service somewhere in their filename    Obviously  you are not limited to one pattern per command  That is  you could ask git to add all files that have an extension of  c and  h   git add   c   h   This link might give you some more glob pattern ideas   I find it particularly useful when I m making many changes  but still want my commits to stay atomic and reflect gradual process rather than a hodgepodge of changes I may be working at the time  Of course  at some point the cost of coming up with elaborate patterns outweighs the cost of adding files with simpler methods  or even one file at a time  However  most of the time I m easily able to pinpoint just the files I need with a simple pattern  and exclude everything else   By the way  you may need to quote your glob patterns for them to work  but this was never the case for me

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1  To start ignoring changes to a single already versioned file  git update-index --assume-unchanged  main dontcheckmein txt    and to undo that git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  main dontcheckmein txt   github docs to ignore files  2  To completely ignore a specific single file preventing it from being created at repository  First  look at this stackoverflow post  Git global ignore not working  In  gitignore  add the relative path to the file without leading        So  if your file is at MyProject MyFolder myfile txt   where  git is also in the MyProject folder   add MyFolder myfile txt to your at  gitignore file   You can confirm what rules are associated with ignore via git check-ignore  MyFolder myfile txt   About global ignore  That link talks about    gitignore global  but the file is related to your project  So  if you put the exclude pattern MyFolder myfile txt in    gitignore global  it will work but will not make much sense       On the other hand  if you setup your project with git config core excludesfile  gitignore where  gitignore is in MyProject  the local file will override    gitignore global  which can have very useful rules     So  for now  I think it s best to make some script to mix your  gitignore with    gitignore global at  gitignore   One last warning If the file you want to ignore is already in the repository  this method will not work unless you do this  git rm  MyFolder myfile txt   but back it up first  as it will be removed locally also  You can copy it back later

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git add   git reset main dontcheckmein txt

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Try this   git checkout -- main dontcheckmein txt

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We can add all the files and exclude the file which has to be removed by git reset  git add   git reset --  lt file name to exclude gt

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Use git add -A to add all modified and newly added files at once   Example  git add -A git reset -- main dontcheckmein txt

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You can try this  git add    amp  amp  git reset main dontcheckmein txt

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git add -u git reset -- main dontcheckmein txt

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For a File  git add -u git reset -- main dontcheckmein txt   For a folder  git add -u git reset -- main

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While Ben Jackson is correct  I thought I would add how I ve been using that solution as well  Below is a very simple script I use  that I call gitadd  to add all changes except a select few that I keep listed in a file called  gittrackignore  very similar to how  gitignore works       bin bash set -e  git add -A git reset  cat  gittrackignore    And this is what my current  gittrackignore looks like   project properties   I m working on an Android project that I compile from the command line when deploying  This project depends on SherlockActionBar  so it needs to be referenced in project properties  but that messes with the compilation  so now I just type gitadd and add all of the changes to git without having to un-add project properties every single time

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Changes to be committed     use  git reset HEAD      to unstage

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To keep the change in file but not to commit I did this   git add    git reset -- main dontcheckmein txt  git commit -m  commit message   to verify the file is excluded do   git status

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