How do I recursively add files by a pattern (or glob) located in different directories?
For example, I'd like to add A/B/C/foo.java and D/E/F/bar.java (and several other java files) with one command:
git add '*.java'
Unfortunately, that doesn't work as expected.
Sergio Acosta's answer is probably your best bet if some of the files to be added may not already be tracked. If you want to limit yourself to files git already knows about, you could combine git-ls-files with a filter:
git ls-files [path] | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add
Git doesn't provide any fancy mechanisms for doing this itself, as it's basically a shell problem: how do you get a list of files to provide as arguments to a given command.
git ls-files -co --exclude-standard | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add –
Griskin You can use git add [path]/\*.java to add java files from subdirectories,
e.g. git add ./\*.java for current directory.
From git add documentation:
Adds content from all
*.txtfiles underDocumentationdirectory and its subdirectories:$ git add Documentation/\*.txtNote that the asterisk
*is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories ofDocumentation/directory.
Sergio Acosta's answer is probably your best bet if some of the files to be added may not already be tracked. If you want to limit yourself to files git already knows about, you could combine git-ls-files with a filter:
git ls-files [path] | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add
Git doesn't provide any fancy mechanisms for doing this itself, as it's basically a shell problem: how do you get a list of files to provide as arguments to a given command.
git ls-files -co --exclude-standard | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add –
Griskin With zsh you can run:
git add "**/*.java"
and all your *.java files will be added recursively.
zsh shell for windows... you will do yourself a favour to use it instead of bash, imho. –
Afflatus ls). –
Griskin git add ../../**/*.java (You don't need quotes surrounding the glob on bash) –
Jay A bit off topic (not specifically git related) but if you're on linux/unix a workaround could be:
find . -name '*.java' | xargs git add
And if you expect paths with spaces:
find . -name '*.java' -print0 | xargs -0 git add
But I know that is not exactly what you asked.
Sergey's answer (don't credit me) is working:
You can use git add [path]/\*.java
with a recent git:
$git version
git version 1.7.3.4
Files for the test:
$find -name .git -prune -o -type f -print | sort
./dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-1/file1.txt
./dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-2/file2.html
./dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-2/file3.txt
./dirA/dirA-1/file4.txt
./dirB/dirB-1/dirB-1-1/file5.html
./dirB/dirB-1/dirB-1-1/file6.txt
./file7.txt
Git status:
$git status -s
?? dirA/
?? dirB/
?? file7.txt
Adding *.txt:
$git add \*.txt
Updated status:
$git status -s
A dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-1/file1.txt
A dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-2/file3.txt
A dirA/dirA-1/file4.txt
A dirB/dirB-1/dirB-1-1/file6.txt
A file7.txt
?? dirA/dirA-1/dirA-1-2/file2.html
?? dirB/dirB-1/dirB-1-1/file5.html
As it's not mentioned here, consider also the "magic signature" :/ to recursively add anything matching below the project root:
git add :/*.{java,pom}
Tx to: https://mcmap.net/q/120434/-is-there-a-way-to-just-commit-one-file-type-extension-from-a-folder
.java or .pom extension, starting from the project root, even though one may be calling git add elsewhere. Also, it be great with some explanation/documentation on the curly-braces. I can't get this to work myself –
Pietro If you are already tracking your files and have made changes to them and now you want to add them selectively based on a pattern, you can use the --modified flag
git ls-files --modified | grep '<pattern>' | xargs git add
For example, if you only want to add the CSS changes to this commit, you can do
git ls-files --modified | grep '\.css$' | xargs git add
See man git-ls-files for more flags
Just use git add *\*.java. This will add all .java files in root directory and all subdirectories.
Adding a Windows command line solution that was not yet mentioned:
for /f "delims=" %G in ('dir /b/s *.java') do @git add %G
I wanted to only add files that had a certain string based on git status:
git status | grep string | xargs git add
and then was able to git commit -m 'commit msg to commit all changed files with "string" in the title of the file
As mentioned in "git: How do I recursively add all files in a directory subtree that match a glob pattern?", if you properly escape or quote your pathspec globbing (like '*.java'), then yes, git add '*.java'
Git 2.13 (Q2 2017) improves that for interactive add:
See commit 7288e12 (14 Mar 2017) by Jeff King (peff).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 153e0d7, 17 Mar 2017)
add --interactive: do not expand pathspecs withls-filesWhen we want to get the list of modified files, we first expand any user-provided pathspecs with "
ls-files", and then feed the resulting list of paths as arguments to "diff-index" and "diff-files".
If your pathspec expands into a large number of paths, you may run into one of two problems:
The OS may complain about the size of the argument list, and refuse to run. For example:
$ (ulimit -s 128 && git add -p drivers) Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at .../git-add--interactive line 177. Died at .../git-add--interactive line 177.That's on the
linux.gitrepository, which has about 20K files in the "drivers" directory (none of them modified in this case). The "ulimit -s" trick is necessary to show the problem on Linux even for such a gigantic set of paths.
Other operating systems have much smaller limits (e.g., a real-world case was seen with only 5K files on OS X).
Even when it does work, it's really slow. The pathspec code is not optimized for huge numbers of paths. Here's the same case without the ulimit:
$ time git add -p drivers No changes. real 0m16.559s user 0m53.140s sys 0m0.220sWe can improve this by skipping "
ls-files" completely, and just feeding the original pathspecs to the diff commands.
Historically the pathspec language supported by "diff-index" was weaker, but that is no longer the case.
put line in ~/.gitconfig
[alias]
addt = !sh -c 'git ls-files | grep \"\\.$1*\" | xargs git add' -
If you want to add all modified java file can just do:
git addt java
Samely, if you want to add all modified python file can just do:
git addt py
.PHONY: docs
docs:
@echo docs
bash -c "if pgrep MacDown; then pkill MacDown; fi"
bash -c 'cat $(PWD)/HEADER.md > $(PWD)/README.md'
bash -c 'cat $(PWD)/COMMANDS.md >> $(PWD)/README.md'
bash -c 'cat $(PWD)/FOOTER.md >> $(PWD)/README.md'
bash -c 'pandoc -s README.md -o index.html'
bash -c "if hash open 2>/dev/null; then open README.md; fi || echo failed to open README.md"
#git add --ignore-errors *.md
git ls-files -co --exclude-standard | grep '\.md/$\' | xargs git
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.javafiles in your current directory, you may be running into the, er, complicated wildcard handling between bash and the msys command-line “helper”. I am not sure about a solution. You might try multiple layers of quotes:git add '"*.java"'(the single quotes are taken by bash to prevent glob expansion, the double quotes are taken by the msys layer to prevent glob expansion). – Geologygit add *.javaworks for me (on powershell with GitHub client) – Geraldgeraldagit add "*.java"works for me in Ubuntu. – Chasten