Is there negation syntax for git add's filepattern?
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Solution
A pure Git way would be to add them all and then remove those files you don’t want from the index again:
git add .
git rm --cached *.hi
The `--cached` is required to remove them only from the index; otherwise you would delete those files. Note that `git rm` will always “add a removal” to the index, so this is probably not what you want in case the files are tracked. Then you should use `git reset` as Klas Mellbourn suggested in the comments:
git add .
git reset -- *.hi
Problem
Suppose I want to use `git add` (or some other command line directive - I cannot use .gitignore) to add all files EXCEPT for a *.hi file. Is there a way to do this? So far I have tried: `git add '!*.hi'` `git add '!(*.hi)'` As I understand it, this is how you specify a negation in glob syntax, and it's also how you do it in .gitignore. Yet for both these commands, I receive the error `fatal: [pattern] did not match any files`. For what it's worth, I'm running these commands from Windows Powershell.