Currently, when I want to make a commit and push the content to the remote Git repository, I use:
git add . //<--notice the dot here
git commit -m "some commit message"
git push
I have seen MANY people use git add -A instead. I read the difference between, . and -A, but I am not clear with it.
So are these two commands the same?
If not, when should one use git add . and when git add -A?
git add . adds only the folder you're currently in, git add -A adds all the folders in the repository.
For example if your repo is called foo and you're in the folder foo/bar, and you changed the files foo/file1.pl and foo/bar/file2.pl, git add . would only stage file2.pl while git add -A would stage all files.
On the question of where to use which it depends on your working style: if you keep a clean repo at all times and you only change files which should be committed then you can use git add -A, otherwise it might be wiser to use git add . or even add the files manually. This being said, it's a good idea to always do a git status at the end to make sure you didn't commit something you shouldn't, cause once it's pushed it's hard to obliterate that data.
git add -A
It adds all the files which has changes in all the folders of the repository.
git add .
It adds all the files which has changes in current folder.
Since git version 2.0 the default is git add -A
From the release notes:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
git add <path>is the same asgit add -A <path>now, so thatgit add dir/will notice paths you removed from the directory and record the removal. In older versions of Git,git add <path>used to ignore removals. You can saygit add --ignore-removal <path>to add only added or modified paths in , if you really want to.
git add . adds the changed files from current directory and sub-directories. git add -A adds the changed files from all the directories.
