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Git staging area or Git index is a list of files that will go to the next commit. Use this tag for questions about problems and operations with the staging area.

The staging area is a file, generally contained in your Git directory, that stores information about what will go into your next commit. It’s sometimes referred to as the “index”, but it’s also common to refer to it as the staging area. (from Pro Git)

Files are staged (indexed) with , or and removed from stage with . Actual contents of the staging area can be shown with .

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How to stage file hunks with gitpython

Does gitpython (or at a pinch any of the python git APIs) provide a way to stage selected hunks from a file in the working tree, like git add -i lets you do? I think I can sort of see how to get an iterable of hunked changes by using difflib on the…
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Undo Add Files in Git

I had a bunch of files in the directory in git that weren't tracked. I made the mistake of doing git add . then committing and pushing the changes. How can I get back to where the files that were untracked before that commit are untracked again, but…
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Git (SourceTree): gitignore already tracked files without deleting from online repository

There are numerous questions about this argument BUT none of them was useful in my case. I've pushed my local project to a bitbucket repository, including a config.php file. Now I've changed my local copy of the config.php file and I need to keep it…
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Git stage and commit - what happens to uncommitted files upon reverting?

Suppose I have five modified files, and I stage two of them for commit (let's call this commit A). Then I still have three uncommitted changes which are left for future commits. Now suppose sometime in the future I decide to revert my working…
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Where does git status get its information on changed files?

Git status gives information on the modified files in a repository (be in un-tracked or staged files) I want to be able to access these list of files -- to preform some code quality checks on those files before a commit is performed via. hooks Do…
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Git: How to "restage" the same lines which were staged?

I have staged some of the modified lines with git add --patch. I have later modified those lines. How could I stage the same lines without selecting them again with git add --patch?
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How to force git to warn or add new files?

We've all experienced that painful moment when a new feature works fine locally but breaks when deployed because we forgot to add a new file. Is there a way to make git warn or automatically add new files when git commit -a is executed?
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Visual Studio 2022. Git Track changes feedback on left margin only appears if file is not staged

I have a file Staged, the text editor track changes margin is not appearing: But if I unstage it, these track changes marks will appear on the margin: Is there any way I can change it to always show the changes on the margin, even if the file is…
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Weird behavior of git switch/checkout if index has same content as target commit

Let's create a small local repository: git init echo foo > foo git add foo git commit -m foo git branch bar echo foo >> foo git commit -a -m 'another foo' If we do this now, we replace our file foo in our index as well as in our working copy with…
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Find files with particular removed text and stage them in git

Suppose I've removed the text 'foo' from a lot of files in my repository, and I want to commit that change. But there are also lots of unrelated changes. How do I find just those files and stage them?
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How can navigate one level back at the git interactive staging (add) command

After running the interactive staging git command $ git add -i and choosing one of the options for example "update", then I don't know how to get back to the root level to choose another option. Is there any keyboard shortcuts or alternative methods…
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In Git pre-commit hook, temporarily remove all changes that are not about to be commited

I would like my pre-commit hook to compile the program and run all the automatic tests before allowing to perform the commit. The problem is that usually my working copy is not clean while I'm committing. They are not staged or even untracked files…
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Git not staging .mp4 files from subdirectory

I have been facing this problem with git in which I am trying to upload .mp4 files in a subdirectory of wwwroot/ but whenever I am writing git status, they won't appear. The new video files are located inside…
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Git: how to untrack files without staging them for deletion

I have some config files that I want to change locally but not risk accidentally committing those changes. They also cannot be added to gitignore because they need to be tracked for the project as a whole. When I modify those files to suit my…
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Git for IntelliJ IDEA - Are files implicitly staged when committing them?

I am new to Git and learnt from my coworkers through the use of Git for IntelliJ IDEA. Recently I have started to read the Git official documentation, which talk about "staged files", a word that I never heard in this context. Consequently I am…
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