Adding and Committing

Finally, we’ll add the files in your new Rails project to Git and then commit the results. You can add all the files (apart from those that match the ignore patterns in .gitignore) as follows:

Here the dot ‘‘.’’ represents the current directory, and Git is smart enough to add the files recursively, so it automatically includes all the subdirectories. This command adds the project files to a staging area, which contains pending changes to your project; you can see which files are in the staging area using the status command:17

(The results are long, so I’ve used vertical dots to indicate omitted output.)

    To tell Git you want to keep the changes, use the commit command: