how to git commit a whole folder?

Question

Here is a folder, which contains a lot of .java files.

How can I git commit this folder ?

If I do the following commands

git add foldername
git c         


        

Answer 1

When you “add” something in Git, you add it to the staging area. When you commit, you then commit what’s in the staging area, meaning it’s possible to commit only a sub-set of changed files at any one time.

In your case, you want to add the folder to the staging area, and then just do a normal commit:

$ git add foldername
$ git commit -m 'Helpful commit message'