Use Git to add a file to a repository All tiers All offerings
To add a new file from the command line:
- Open a terminal.
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Change directories until you are in your project’s folder.
cd my-project
- Choose a Git branch to work in.
- To create a branch:
git checkout -b <branchname>
- To switch to an existing branch:
git checkout <branchname>
- To create a branch:
- Copy the file you want to add into the directory where you want to add it.
- Confirm that your file is in the directory:
- Windows:
dir
- All other operating systems:
ls
The filename should be displayed.
- Windows:
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Check the status of the file:
git status
The filename should be in red. The file is in your file system, but Git isn’t tracking it yet.
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Tell Git to track the file:
git add <filename>
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Check the status of the file again:
git status
The filename should be green. The file is tracked locally by Git, but has not been committed and pushed.
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Commit the file to your local copy of the project’s Git repository:
git commit -m "Describe the reason for your commit here"
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Push your changes from your copy of the repository to GitLab. In this command,
origin
refers to the remote copy of the repository. Replace<branchname>
with the name of your branch:git push origin <branchname>
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Git prepares, compresses, and sends the data. Lines from the remote repository start with
remote:
:Enumerating objects: 9, done. Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done. Delta compression using up to 10 threads Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.84 KiB | 1.84 MiB/s, done. Total 5 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: remote: To create a merge request for <branchname>, visit: remote: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/new?merge_request%5Bsource_branch%5D=<branchname> remote: To https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab.git * [new branch] <branchname> -> <branchname> branch '<branchname>' set up to track 'origin/<branchname>'.
Your file is copied from your local copy of the repository to the remote repository.
To create a merge request, copy the link sent back from the remote repository and paste it into a browser window.
Add a file to the last commit
git add <filename>
git commit --amend
Append --no-edit
to the commit
command if you do not want to edit the commit
message.