I work locally under Windows. I have a local git repo and already included some files. The folder (and subfolders) where I am working in includes many other files that are not yet tracked and not known to git. Some of these files have not been changed for many months. I need to add some, but not all of these files. The criterium for inclusion should be the date of last change (e.g. I want to "git add" only files that have been modified within the last month).

Is there a way to do this? Searching help files and threads here only showed me solutions when the files are already tracked.

CodePudding user response：

Not possible with git only, but if you have "git bash" or WSL available, you should be able to run something like

find . -type f -mtime -31 -not -path '*/.git/*' -exec git add -v -- {}  

to add files modified within the last 31 days.

Notes:

• If you only want to include certain folders, specify their names instead of .
• To list which files are being matched by the specified age,
  run the command without the -exec part:
  find . -type f -mtime -31 -not -path '*/.git/*'
• To list which files would be added without actually adding them,
  use git add's --dry-run option (short: -n):
  find . -type f -mtime -31 -not -path '*/.git/*' -exec git add -v -n -- {}

Edit history:

• Instead of find's -print expression use git add's -v option (a.k.a. --verbose). This way only the files that were actually added are listed, not all files that were passed to the git add command.
• Add dry-run suggestion to notes