git add./*.java 不起作用？

Question

I have a bunch of Java files in my current Java project that I keep modifying and I want to add them all in one fell swoop from the root folder of the project (in Ubuntu).

I tried:

git add ./*.java

but that doesn't do it. I tried escaping the asterisk like so:

git add ./\*.java

but that doesn't do it. Then I tried quoting it like so:

git add "./*.java"

but that doesn't do it.

The man page for "git add" gives this as an example:

Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation directory and its subdirectories:

 $ git add Documentation/\*.txt

I tried using a directory such as "Documentation" above to qualify this but that doesn't work either.

What am I missing?

[ Update ] I tried out @GoZoner's suggestion below and it works, but only if the files are new, and not if they are pre-existing ones that have been updated. This is very odd.

Answer 1

You need to escape the '.'

git add \./\*.java

works.

$ git add \./\*.c
$ git status
# On branch br1
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   new file:   bang/boo.c
#   new file:   bing/one.c
#

Answer 2

git add -u *.java

Where
-u adds modified tracked files
*.java is pathspec

Answer 3

Instead of doing 'git add' use:

git status

That will show you what files are new (unknown by git) and what files have been modified. More importantly for your case, 'git status' will show the full path to the reported files. Knowing the full path you will be able to add them one-by-one with 'git add full-path-to.java' or, if everything looks committable, 'git add -A' will add them all.

Answer 4

If you want to limit yourself to files git already knows about, you could combine git-ls-files with a filter:

git ls-files [path] | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add

Here you have to specify the path to your folders.

OR

Here you give instruction to show cached c and other o files while excluding standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.

git ls-files -co --exclude-standard | grep '\.java$'| xargs git add

From this answer Recursively add files by pattern .