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Re: Can we stage all files using "git add" command, except some specific files ?

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Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date
May 26, 2014, 20:23 UTC
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On di, 2014-05-27 at 00:33 +0630, Arup Rakshit wrote:
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> Now, you can see, I have staged all the files first using *git add
> -A*, then _unstaging_ those I don't want to _stage_ right now. Now can
> this be done, in the *staging* time ? I mean any way to tell `git add`
> command, that add all the files from the current directory, except
> some specific files.

No, there is no such option to do that, but you could use git add --interactive and use its interface to quickly pick the files you want to add.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker
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