git add.md

git add tells git to track any files provided. The template for this command is git add [files]. The [files] portion of this can be any number of things.

• a list of files: git add file1 file2
• an extension with a wildcard: git add *.R
• a dot git add ., which means all files in the current directory
• or no files: git add -A where -A is a shortcut for all files

git add will also add any modified files to the staging area

A few ways to use git add

# add all files to the staging area
git add .
git add -A

# use the patch option, use the y/n keys to interactively add files
git add -p
git add --patch

# by filename with git add [filename]
git add script.R
git add scripts/*.r
git add scripts

Removing a file

Sometimes you need to remove a file from your repo.

git rm will remove files. This is essentially the same as running the rm command. It permanently deletes it from you directory. The ---cached option will only remove it from your repo not from your directory.

git rm

git rm --cached secrets.md