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Selectively git add Files

Understand how to selectively add files and specific code changes within files using Git commands to create organized commits. Learn to avoid adding unrelated changes to a commit, ensuring smoother version control and easier tracking of features or fixes.

In the project initialization steps, we learned to use git add . to include all files in the project folder to the first git commit. But most beginners only use git add . for the rest of their lives. This command adds all files without reviewing them. We must use it carefully.

Overuse of git add .

If unrelated code is committed to the same commit, we won’t be able ...