git add - Stage only deleted files with git add

Question

I have run git status and see several modified files and several deleted files.

Is it possible to stage only deleted or only modified files?

Answer 1

If you have a mix of modified and deleted files and only want to stage deleted files to the index, you can use git ls-files as a filter.

git ls-files --deleted | xargs git add

If you only want this to apply to part of the file tree, give one or more subdirectories as arguments to ls-files:

git ls-files --deleted -- lib/foo | xargs git add

To do the same for only modified files, use the --modified (-m) option instead of --deleted (-d).