How do I commit only some files?

Solution 1:

I suppose you want to commit the changes to one branch and then make those changes visible in the other branch. In git you should have no changes on top of HEAD when changing branches.

You commit only the changed files by:

git commit [some files]

Or if you are sure that you have a clean staging area you can

git add [some files]       # add [some files] to staging area
git add [some more files]  # add [some more files] to staging area
git commit                 # commit [some files] and [some more files]

If you want to make that commit available on both branches you do

git stash                     # remove all changes from HEAD and save them somewhere else
git checkout <other-project>  # change branches
git cherry-pick <commit-id>   # pick a commit from ANY branch and apply it to the current
git checkout <first-project>  # change to the other branch
git stash pop                 # restore all changes again

Solution 2:

Get a list of files you want to commit

$ git status

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified:   file1
modified:   file2
modified:   file3
modified:   file4

Add the files to staging

$ git add file1 file2

Check to see what you are committing

$ git status

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

    modified:   file1
    modified:   file2

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   file3
    modified:   file4

Commit the files with a commit message

$ git commit -m "Fixed files 1 and 2"

If you accidentally commit the wrong files

$ git reset --soft HEAD~1

If you want to unstage the files and start over

$ git reset

Unstaged changes after reset:
M file1
M file2
M file3
M file4

Solution 3:

You can commit some updated files, like this:

git commit file1 file2 file5 -m "commit message"

Solution 4:

Some of this seems "incomplete"

Groups of people are NOT going to know if they should use quotes etc..

Add 1 specific file showing the location paths as well

git add JobManager/Controllers/APIs/ProfileApiController.cs

Commit (remember, commit is local only, it is not affecting any other system)

git commit -m "your message"

Push to remote repo

git push  (this is after the commit and this attempts to Merge INTO the remote location you have instructed it to merge into)

Other answer(s) show the stash etc. which you sometimes will want to do

Solution 5:

Suppose you made changes to multiple files, like:

File1
File2
File3
File4
File5

But you want to commit only changes of File1 and File3.

There are two ways for doing this:

1.Stage only these two files, using:

git add file1 file3

then, commit

git commit -m "your message"

then push,

git push

2.Direct commit

git commit file1 file3 -m "your message"