On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, synhedionn<synhedionn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > with git add . , a directory is expected, but I don't need all my files to > be recorded, only one of my thousands, so how can I record just 1 file? By only adding this file to the index. Use "git add $yourfile" instead of "git add ." If you do not want to see your thousands of files in the directory when running git status, you can simply create a .gitignore file with * as content. Git will still notify you about files which it already knows about, even though the .gitignore entry tells it to ignore everything. Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html