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did git add . in subfolder ๐Ÿคก (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming
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I'm doing a solo coding project for work. It's a tool that you interact with similar to npm or cargo, where you can create a new workspace, run / test etc. Importantly, you have to be in the working directory for the commands to work...

Yesterday I decided to go home early to do remote work at home. Before i left i quickly did git add ., committed and pushed. I turned on my computer this morning, ran git pull, and noticed that... only some files got pushed, but more importantly none of the code i wrote yesterday made it through. Yup, I was still cd'd into my workspace folder and not at the project root, so I only committed the mock workspace folder ๐Ÿ˜„

Luckily i didnt write or change much this time, but lesson learned: git add -A or git commit -am '...'

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When staging files to commit, you can use an interactive patch:

git add -p

Before you make your commit, you can inspect what's being committed:

git diff --cached

If there are things you want to remove, you can do so with interactive patches, too:

git reset -p

You can also pass directories or files to any of these commands to include a subset of your project in the command.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

omg these are great commands, thanks for sharing :)

git is definitely a weak spot for me in general, there's a lot of commands and similar commands, so my approach until now has been to forget they exist haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You bet! You can always check the man pages by adding a hyphen between the git commands, too, like so:

man git-diff

man git-add

It's exhaustive, but you can search the page with slash (/) ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

honestly, i check the manpages for anything else but i never have with git ๐Ÿคฃ however I didn't know how to access the man pages for subcommands, thanks!! :)