In my situation, I have a webapp (django) project that has a bunch of staged files I'd not like to discard or commit, but at the same time, I have a file (a sqlite file) that I want to add and commit. At this moment since I have no idea how to do this, I'm taking a way to manually copy (cp) the file to an another non-git directory with renaming, but this is apparently not an efficient practice. So what can I do? Thanks.
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Specify the file that you want to commit:
git commit -m 'commit the file' -- /path/to/file
This will commit the specified file but other staged files will not be committed.
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That would be what I wanted, but as I'm trying the command I get `did not match any file(s) known to git.`. – 丶 Limeー来夢 丶 Mar 05 '22 at 10:25
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e.g. `$ git commit -m "sqlite tmp" db.sqlite3` `error: pathspec 'db.sqlite3' did not match any file(s) known to git.` The file is certainly there and accessible. The file is also not in the gitignore or on the matches. – 丶 Limeー来夢 丶 Mar 05 '22 at 10:25
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Try adding two hyphens before the path (but leave a space between the hyphens and the path). – snakecharmerb Mar 05 '22 at 10:29
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Thanks for the edit, but it still doesn't work (`git commit -m "sqlite tmp" -- db.sqlite3`); I get the same above error – 丶 Limeー来夢 丶 Mar 05 '22 at 10:49
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Ah, I misread the error: `did not match any file(s) known to git` means that the file is not tracked by git; you need to do `git add db.sqlite3` before committing. – snakecharmerb Mar 05 '22 at 10:54
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made it, thanks. But I googled "git commit specific files" and found a SO post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7239333, no one mention to the trick `--`. I'd like to learn is there any SO post or document that elaborate this? – 丶 Limeー来夢 丶 Mar 05 '22 at 11:14
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1https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13321458/meaning-of-git-checkout-double-dashes – snakecharmerb Mar 05 '22 at 11:16