R: Add file(s) to index

add {git2r} | R Documentation

## Add file(s) to index

### Description

Add file(s) to index

### Usage

    add(repo, path, ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'git_repository,character'
    add(repo, path, force = FALSE)

### Arguments

`repo` | The repository `object`.
`path` | Character vector with file names or shell glob patterns that will matched against files in the repository's working directory. Each file that matches will be added to the index (either updating an existing entry or adding a new entry).
`...` | Additional arguments to the method
`force` | Add ignored files. Default is FALSE.

### Value

invisible(NULL)

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ## Initialize a repository
    path <- tempfile(pattern="git2r-")
    dir.create(path)
    repo <- init(path)

    ## Create a user
    config(repo, user.name="Alice", user.email="alice@example.org")

    ## Create a file
    writeLines("a", file.path(path, "a.txt"))

    ## Add file to repository and view status
    add(repo, "a.txt")
    status(repo)

    ## Add file with a leading './' when the repository working
    ## directory is the current working directory
    setwd(path)
    writeLines("b", file.path(path, "b.txt"))
    add(repo, "./b.txt")
    status(repo)

    ## Add a file in a sub-folder with sub-folder as the working
    ## directory. Create a file in the root of the repository
    ## working directory that will remain untracked.
    dir.create(file.path(path, "sub_dir"))
    setwd("./sub_dir")
    writeLines("c", file.path(path, "c.txt"))
    writeLines("c", file.path(path, "sub_dir/c.txt"))
    add(repo, "c.txt")
    status(repo)

    ## Add files with glob expansion when the current working
    ## directory is outside the repository's working directory.
    setwd(tempdir())
    dir.create(file.path(path, "glob_dir"))
    writeLines("d", file.path(path, "glob_dir/d.txt"))
    writeLines("e", file.path(path, "glob_dir/e.txt"))
    writeLines("f", file.path(path, "glob_dir/f.txt"))
    writeLines("g", file.path(path, "glob_dir/g.md"))
    add(repo, "glob_dir/*txt")
    status(repo)

    ## Add file with glob expansion with a relative path when
    ## the current working directory is inside the repository's
    ## working directory.
    setwd(path)
    add(repo, "./glob_dir/*md")
    status(repo)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package git2r version 0.21.0 Index]