differenct between "take anything" and "take everything" [closed]

Solution 1:

The word "anything" strictly refers to an unspecified single item, so the sentence

Git takes anything selected and stages it for you.

would be used if you can only choose a single item from a range of items. The singular "it" also has the same implication. While the same statement is sometimes used where multiple choices will be staged, it does not strictly imply that you can choose more than one.

On the other hand

Git takes everything selected and stages them for you.

is an invitation to select as many items as you want, possibly the entire range.

Solution 2:

In this case take anything and take everything I think would mean the same thing.

Git takes anything that you selected, and no things that you did not select, and stages them. They also could have said that git takes everything that you selected, and no things that you did not select, and stages them.

If it's doing something else it's probably a programming error and not an english one...