Use git add Interactively
Learn to micromanage the staging area and better carve our commits when many changes are made.
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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
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