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Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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8.4 KiB
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git-add(1)
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==========
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NAME
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----
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git-add - Add file contents to the index
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
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[--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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This command adds the current content of new or modified files to the
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index, thus staging that content for inclusion in the next commit.
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The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
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is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus
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after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
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the commit command, you must use the 'add' command to add any new or
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modified files to the index.
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This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. It only
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adds the content of the specified file(s) at the time the add command is
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run; if you want subsequent changes included in the next commit, then
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you must run 'git add' again to add the new content to the index.
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The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
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files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
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The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any
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ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
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will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
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directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your
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globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'add' command can
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be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option.
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Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
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commit.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<filepattern>...::
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Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can
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be given to add all matching files. Also a
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leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1`
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and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
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directory, recursively.
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-n, \--dry-run::
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Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
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-v, \--verbose::
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Be verbose.
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-f::
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Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
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-i, \--interactive::
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Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
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the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
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operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
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mode'' for details.
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-p, \--patch::
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Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
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bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
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the specified filepatterns before exiting.
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-u::
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Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
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content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
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is similar
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to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
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except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
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command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
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current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
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\--refresh::
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Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
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information in the index.
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\--ignore-errors::
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If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
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them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
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others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
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\--::
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This option can be used to separate command-line options from
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the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
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for command-line options).
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Configuration
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-------------
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The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
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file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
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$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
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those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
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EXAMPLES
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--------
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* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
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and its subdirectories:
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+
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------------
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$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
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------------
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Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
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example; this lets the command to include the files from
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subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
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* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
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$ git add git-*.sh
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------------
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Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
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listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
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`subdir/git-foo.sh`.
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Interactive mode
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----------------
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When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
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output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
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interactive command loop.
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The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and
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gives a prompt "What now> ". In general, when the prompt ends
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with a single '>', you can pick only one of the choices given
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and type return, like this:
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------------
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*** Commands ***
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1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked
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5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help
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What now> 1
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You also could say "s" or "sta" or "status" above as long as the
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choice is unique.
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The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit).
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status::
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This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be
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committed if you say "git commit"), and between index and
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working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before
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"git commit" using "git-add") for each path. A sample output
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looks like this:
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staged unstaged path
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1: binary nothing foo.png
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2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
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------------
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It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is
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binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no
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difference between indexed copy and the working tree
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version (if the working tree version were also different,
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'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The
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other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403 lines added
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and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but
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working tree file has further modifications (one addition and
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one deletion).
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update::
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This shows the status information and gives prompt
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"Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
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make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
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comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
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2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
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everything.
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What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
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like this:
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staged unstaged path
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1: binary nothing foo.png
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* 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 git-add--interactive.perl
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------------
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To remove selection, prefix the input with `-`
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like this:
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------------
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Update>> -2
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------------
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After making the selection, answer with an empty line to stage the
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contents of working tree files for selected paths in the index.
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revert::
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This has a very similar UI to 'update', and the staged
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information for selected paths are reverted to that of the
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HEAD version. Reverting new paths makes them untracked.
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add untracked::
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This has a very similar UI to 'update' and
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'revert', and lets you add untracked paths to the index.
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patch::
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This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
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After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
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and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
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the change of each hunk. You can say:
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y - stage this hunk
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n - do not stage this hunk
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a - stage this and all the remaining hunks in the file
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d - do not stage this hunk nor any of the remaining hunks in the file
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j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
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J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
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k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
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K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
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s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
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? - print help
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After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk
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that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks.
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diff::
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This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between
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HEAD and index).
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Bugs
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----
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The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
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characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
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used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
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double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
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See Also
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--------
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linkgit:git-status[1]
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linkgit:git-rm[1]
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linkgit:git-reset[1]
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linkgit:git-mv[1]
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linkgit:git-commit[1]
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linkgit:git-update-index[1]
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
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