4.1 Adding Files
You’re constantly adding new files and making changes to your repository’s
contents. git add fills both of these
roles. Just give it the name of a file or the files you want to add, and Git
stages the changes to commit.
Before we proceed, there is a little terminology to clear up. Staged changes are simply changes in your working tree that you want to tell your repository about. When you stage a change, it updates what Git refers to as its index. A lot of people, myself included, refer to it as the staging area.
The staging area is just that, a place where you can set up commits prior to committing to your repository.
“But isn’t this double the amount of work? Why can’t I just commit?”
In a lot of cases, yes, it is double ...
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