.TH git-annex-add 1
.SH NAME
git-annex-add \- adds files to the git annex
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.SH SYNOPSIS
git annex add \fB[path ...]\fP
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.SH DESCRIPTION
Adds the specified files to the annex. If a directory is specified,
acts on all files inside the directory and its subdirectories.
If no path is specified, adds files from the current directory and below.
.PP
Files that are already checked into git and are unmodified, or that
git has been configured to ignore will be silently skipped.
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If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, 
\fBgit annex add\fP will behave the same as \fBgit add\fP and add the
non\-large file directly to the git repository, instead of to the annex.
(By default dotfiles are assumed to not be large, and are added directly
to git, but annex.dotfiles can be configured to annex those too.)
See the git-annex manpage for documentation of these and other
configuration settings.
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Large files are added to the annex in locked form, which prevents further
modification of their content unless unlocked by git-annex\-unlock(1).
(This is not the case however when a repository is in a filesystem not
supporting symlinks.)
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This command can also be used to add symbolic links, both symlinks to
annexed content, and other symlinks.
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.SH EXAMPLES
 # git annex add foo bar
 add foo ok
 add bar ok
 # git commit \-m added
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.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB\-\-no\-check\-gitignore\fP"
.IP
Add gitignored files.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-force\-large\fP"
Treat all files as large files, ignoring annex.largefiles and annex.dotfiles
configuration, and add to the annex.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-force\-small\fP"
Treat all files as small files, ignoring annex.largefiles and annex.dotfiles
and annex.addsmallfiles configuration, and add to git.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-backend\fP"
Specifies which key\-value backend to use.
.IP
.IP "file matching options"
Many of the git-annex\-matching\-options(1)
can be used to specify files to add.
.IP
For example: \fB\-\-largerthan=1GB\fP
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-jobs=N\fP \fB\-JN\fP"
Adds multiple files in parallel. This may be faster.
For example: \fB\-J4\fP  
.IP
Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-update\fP \fB\-u\fP"
Like \fBgit add \-\-update\fP, this does not add new files, but any updates
to tracked files will be added to the index.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-json\fP"
Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-json\-progress\fP"
Include progress objects in JSON output.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-json\-error\-messages\fP"
Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
the json instead.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-\-batch\fP"
Enables batch mode, in which a file to add is read in a line from stdin,
the file is added, and repeat.
.IP
Note that if a file is skipped (due to not existing, being gitignored,
already being in git, or doesn't meet the matching options), 
an empty line will be output instead of the normal output produced
when adding a file.
.IP
.IP "\fB\-z\fP"
Makes the \fB\-\-batch\fP input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual
newlines.
.IP
.SH SEE ALSO
git-annex(1)
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git-annex\-unlock(1)
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git-annex\-lock(1)
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git-annex\-undo(1)
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git-annex\-import(1)
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git-annex\-unannex(1)
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git-annex\-reinject(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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