How to `git add` non-recursively?

Adding a whole complex directory hierarchy is an unusual thing to do (and certainly not something that happens as part of the usual git development workflow), so git doesn't have a special feature for it. You can always use an external tool to assemble a list of files you want to add and feed that list to git add, e.g. to only add the files in the current directory non-recursively, do

git add $(find . -type f -maxdepth 1)

Alternatively, you could use

git ls-files --others --directory > file-list

to create a list of untracked files in your current directory, and edit it in an editor to remove everything you don't want to add. (Make sure to remove file-list itself.) You can then use

git add $(cat file-list)

to add the files and directories in the edited list. (Directories you leave in will still be added recursively).

If you want to add only the files from the directory without any other subfolders you can do something like:

git add FolderName/\*.* 

Where *.* means every file, from every file type. Folders don't have extensions so they won't pass.

A simple alternative is to add a single file in the subdirectory, then you can proceed to add other files as desired.

git add somedir/goodfilecd somedirgit add anotherfile