add
===

:Purpose: Add specified files or directories.
:Usage:   bzr add [FILE...]

:Options:
  --dry-run            Show what would be done, but don't actually do
                       anything.
  -v, --verbose        Display more information.
  --file-ids-from=ARG  Lookup file ids from this tree.
  -N, --no-recurse     Don't recursively add the contents of directories.
  -q, --quiet          Only display errors and warnings.
  --usage              Show usage message and options.
  -h, --help           Show help message.

:Description:
  In non-recursive mode, all the named items are added, regardless
  of whether they were previously ignored.  A warning is given if
  any of the named files are already versioned.
  
  In recursive mode (the default), files are treated the same way
  but the behaviour for directories is different.  Directories that
  are already versioned do not give a warning.  All directories,
  whether already versioned or not, are searched for files or
  subdirectories that are neither versioned or ignored, and these
  are added.  This search proceeds recursively into versioned
  directories.  If no names are given '.' is assumed.
  
  A warning will be printed when nested trees are encountered,
  unless they are explicitly ignored.
  
  Therefore simply saying 'bzr add' will version all files that
  are currently unknown.
  
  Adding a file whose parent directory is not versioned will
  implicitly add the parent, and so on up to the root. This means
  you should never need to explicitly add a directory, they'll just
  get added when you add a file in the directory.
  
  --dry-run will show which files would be added, but not actually
  add them.
  
  --file-ids-from will try to use the file ids from the supplied path.
  It looks up ids trying to find a matching parent directory with the
  same filename, and then by pure path. This option is rarely needed
  but can be useful when adding the same logical file into two
  branches that will be merged later (without showing the two different
  adds as a conflict). It is also useful when merging another project
  into a subdirectory of this one.
  
  Any files matching patterns in the ignore list will not be added
  unless they are explicitly mentioned.
  
  In recursive mode, files larger than the configuration option 
  add.maximum_file_size will be skipped. Named items are never skipped due
  to file size.

:See also: :doc:`ignore <ignore-help>`, :doc:`remove <remove-help>`