Use git add Interactively

The git add command comes with an interactive mode. In this mode, we can choose to stage only a part of a file, down to the level of lines.

Understand git add -i

First of all, let’s create two files, file1 and file2, in the new directory and commit them. Then, we add a few lines in both files after the initial commit according to the statements given below.

The following commands are already in the terminal below. Click the terminal to run them:

 $ mkdir folder
 $ cd folder
 $ git init
 $ echo 'This is file1' > file1
 $ echo 'This is file2' > file2
 $ git add .
 $ git commit -am 'files added'
 $ cat > file1 << END
 > Good change
 > This is file1
 > Experimental change
 > END
 $ cat > file2 << END
 > All good
 > This is file2
 > END