git stage

A historical synonym. Same plumbing, different keystrokes.

🎯 What & why

An older, less-used alias for git add. Same plumbing. Same semantics. Different keystrokes. Documented for completeness; you'll mostly see it in scripts written before add won the popularity contest.

🧠 Mental model

Identical to git add. Whatever add does, stage does. There is no separate stage command in the source — it's literally the same code path.

🛠️ Synopsis

git stage <args>
# == git add <args>

🎚️ Switches & options

Flag	What it does
`(see git add)`	Every flag of `git add` works here.

💡 Use cases

Maintaining old scripts that already use git stage.
Showing newcomers the staging-area concept (stage is a more intuitive verb).

🧪 Examples

Stage a file.

$ git stage src/main.c

Stage everything modified or deleted, preserve untracked.

$ git stage -u

Interactive hunks.

$ git stage -p

🎓 Recommendations

Use git add. Everyone reads it the same way; tooling and articles assume it.
Don't introduce git stage into new scripts. It's an alias, not a feature.

🪤 Common pitfalls

Some shells or tools auto-complete stage to something else.
Git's documentation discusses add; if you read about stage, double-check it's the same Git you're running.

🔗 Related modules

📝 Quiz

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