GIT-TOUCH(1)

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version 7.5.0 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💅 GIT-TOUCH — the manual page, but make it slay

okay bestie, welcome to the git-touch page, part of the Git Extras collection ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

git-touch — touch a file and add it to the index, all in one lil move 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

git-touch <filename>

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: it calls touch on the file you hand it, and then it drops that file straight into the current index. That's it. That's the whole thing. 🫶

It's literally made for that one-step "new file just dropped" moment — creating new files without doing the whole touch-then-add dance like some kind of Victorian. no cap 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • <filename> — the file that's getting touched. that's the one. 👑

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

$ git touch Makefile

look at her go 🎀 one command, file touched, file staged, main character energy fr fr

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Alex McHale <alexmchale@gmail.com> — shoutout to the icon who made this happen 💜

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found something cursed? Take it here, bestie:

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

not me filing a bug report at 2am tho 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

<https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

(the whole Git Extras fam lives there, go say hi 🦋)

and that's the tea ☕ this page came from Git Extras, dated May 2026, and it's filed under GIT-TOUCH(1) in the manual. bye bestie, go touch some files 💖✨🌸

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