How to add multiple files to Git at the same time

Question

This will be my first git use. I have added new files ( a lot ) to the folder/project ( git local repository).

I went through online tutorials and forums and see i can do

     git commit -a

So i go to the base folder of the repository and do a

    sudo git commit -a

But then, some screens comes up and asks me to add a comment which i do. i do not know how to proceed or exit. I do not want to mess up so i did ctrl + Z and did not do anything.

Can you guys please outline the commands i need to use?

git commit -a 

and

git push?

Answer 1

Use the git add command, followed by a list of space-separated file names, e.g.

git add <file-name-1> <file-name-2> <file-name-3>

Answer 2

You can also select multiple files like this

git add folder/subfolder/*

This will add all the files in the specified subfolder. Very useful when you edit a bunch of files but you just want to commit some of them...

Answer 3

If you want to stage and commit all your files on Github do the following;

git add -A
git commit -m "commit message"
git push origin master

Answer 4

When you change files or add a new ones in repository you first must stage them.

git add <file>

or if you want to stage all

git add .

By doing this you are telling to git what files you want in your next commit. Then you do:

git commit -m 'your message here'

You use

git push origin master

where origin is the remote repository branch and master is your local repository branch.

Answer 5

To add all the changes you've made:

git add .

To commit them:

git commit -m "MY MESSAGE HERE" #-m is the message flag

You can put those steps together like this:

git commit -a -m "MY MESSAGE HERE"

To push your committed changes from your local repository to your remote repository:

git push origin master

You might have to type in your username/password for github after this. Here's a good primer on using git. A bit old, but it covers what's going on really well.

Answer 6

If you want to add multiple files in a given folder you can split them using {,}. This is awesome for not repeating long paths, e.g.

git add long/path/{file1,file2,...,filen}

Beware not to put spaces between the ,.