如何在目录库中添加目录树？

Question

I've been working on a project that's fairly far a long now and I decided it's time to use some sort of version control etc. I decided to go with github. Before I get in too deep let me state explicitly that I am new to github.

My project resides in a directory that contains myriad subdirectories and files of all different kinds. I'd like to take my project directory as is (structure and all) and put it in my github repo.

I followed the tutorials on github's webpage, created the repo, and manually added some files. Obviously I don't want to manually add every file (there are several hundred). I'd like to know how I can add the root directory or for that matter any parent directory and all files/folders in said said directory. In other words I'm looking for a recursive add.

I read on this SO page ( How to create folder in github repository? ) that you can just use

git add directory/

That works fine for me when I'm dealing with the lowest level directory, but when I try the same command on a directory with subdirectories my terminal just sits there and I have to ctrl-c. I can't tell if it's just taking a long time (as I mentioned there are lots of files) or if this is just the wrong way to add a directory with subdirectories.

Apologies in advance if this is a super ignorant question -- I have looked at a lot of blogs/posts/etc and I cannot find a solution that seems to work.

Answer 1

Use the Current Working Directory

Assuming you're on Linux or OS X, from the command line you would do the following:

git add .

from the root of your repository tree. That will add all non-ignored files, including non-empty directories, into the repository.

Answer 2

From the root directory (the one with all the subdirectories), use git add -A .

If you have a ton of subdirectories and files, it may take a long while, so just let it sit there until it's done.