# git only one file 3 messages from 2009-08-25 to 2009-10-02. Participants: synhedionn, Matthias Kestenholz, gsky. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20732 ## synhedionn, 2009-08-25 19:12 Subject: git only one file Message-ID: <25140456.post@talk.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/25140456.post%40talk.nabble.com ``` 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? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/git-only-one-file-tp25140456p25140456.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Matthias Kestenholz, 2009-08-25 19:38 Subject: Re: git only one file Message-ID: <1f6632e50908251238o2fef1048uc9aa27b38f5d7689@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1f6632e50908251238o2fef1048uc9aa27b38f5d7689%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <25140456.post@talk.nabble.com> ``` On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, 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? 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 ``` ## gsky, 2009-10-02 17:24 Subject: Re: git only one file Message-ID: <25718014.post@talk.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/25718014.post%40talk.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <25140456.post@talk.nabble.com> ``` 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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/git-only-one-file-tp25140456p25718014.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```