filepattern

I would like to run git reset *.foo but this errors out. I think I need to use a pipe, but I'm not sure how to do this. Thanks! for i in `git status --porcelain | grep '^D.*\.foo$' | sed 's/^D \+//'`; do git reset HEAD "$i" git checkout "$i" done If you are using Powershell the following will work. gci -re -in *foo | %{ git reset $_ } This should work in cygwin and unix env git reset $(git diff --name-only --cached | grep *.foo) In a Git GUI application like SmartGit I would filter the displayed files by the pattern *.foo , press Ctrl+A to select all the filtered files and invoke the Unstage

How do I recursively add files by a pattern (or glob) located in different directories? For example, I'd like to add A/B/C/foo.java and D/E/F/bar.java (and several other java files) with one command: git add '*.java' Unfortunately, that doesn't work as expected. Sergio Acosta's answer is probably your best bet if some of the files to be added may not already be tracked. If you want to limit yourself to files git already knows about, you could combine git-ls-files with a filter: git ls-files [path] | grep '\.java$' | xargs git add Git doesn't provide any fancy mechanisms for doing this itself,