This command allows you to interactively choose which files you want to add to the git index. It presents a menu that lets you select specific files or apply actions to groups of files, such as adding all files with a specific extension. You can also split hunks within a file and choose which changes to stage.
-i is the short version of the --interactive flag.
Some variations of this command include:
git add --patch(-p): The same asgit add -i, but instead of using a menu, it interactively prompts you for each individual change within a file.git add --edit: This opens up the default text editor to manually modify the list of files to be added in an interactive manner.