git only one file

with git add .  , a directory is expected, but I don't need all my files to
be recorded, only one of my thousands, so how can I record just 1 file?
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, synhedionn[off-list ref] wrote:

with git add .  , a directory is expected, but I don't need all my files to
be recorded, only one of my thousands, so how can I record just 1 file?

By only adding this file to the index. Use "git add $yourfile" instead
of "git add ."

If you do not want to see your thousands of files in the directory
when running git status, you can simply create a .gitignore file with
* as content. Git will still notify you about files which it already
knows about, even though the .gitignore entry tells it to ignore
everything.



Matthias

synhedionn wrote:

with git add .  , a directory is expected, but I don't need all my files
to be recorded, only one of my thousands, so how can I record just 1 file?

git add /path/to/file
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