"J. Bakshi" <joydeep.bakshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Could you please suggest how can I add foo/dir1/file1 ? > > guess > > touch foo/dir1/.gitignore > git add foo/dir1/ Not if you want only "file1" to be added. As I said, Git doesn't know and doesn't want to know about directories. So "git add directory/" is just a shorthand that adds all (non-ignored) files in this directory. > git add foo/dir1/file1 This last line alone will do it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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