Every day we use the command a lot to add our changes to the index for new commits, but have you ever wondered how we can add all the changed files with some files excluded during the execution of this command (not with .gitignore)? If the answer is yes, then this article will help you to understand how certain files can be excluded during the git add command. "Git add" TLDR; command to exclude specific file git add -A ':!<file_path>' Problem One day, I was put in a situation where I need to add some files for my new commit but I also needed to exclude a few files during that execution; those files would get added later on once my work was done on those. One way to do this was to hit the below command: git add <file_path> <file_path> ... <file_path> Basically, if I have done changes to under 13 files and wanted to exclude only 3 files from those, that means 10 files need to be added with the command. I then have to copy all those 10 files path and paste them to the terminal and it will have become a little bit of a tedious task. Git add manually Let’s look at the example. git add Dockerfile \
README.md \
nest-cli.json \
package-lock.json \
package.json \
src/app.controller.spec.ts \
src/app.controller.ts \
src/app.module.ts \
src/app.service.ts \
src/main.ts After this command, you can now check for the staged files by hitting: git status Solution But what if this process can be done inversely? 🤔 What if instead of passing 10 files paths, I could just pass 3 files path? 👀 Yes you heard it right this can be possible with Git add with the below example. git add -A ':!.eslintrc.js' ':!.gitignore' ':!.prettierrc' And now when you hit , it will show added to the index apart from the 3 excluded files. It's like a under the Git add path option. Git status all 10 files NOT (!) operator Hope you enjoyed this content, please share your thoughts under comment and also get in touch with me on . Twitter

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