Adding Only Untracked Files

Question

One of the commands I find incredibly useful in Git is git add -u to throw everything but untracked files into the index. Is there an inverse of that? In the la

Answer 1

git ls-files lists the files in the current directory. If you want to list untracked files from anywhere in the tree, this might work better:

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)

To add all untracked files in the tree:

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) | xargs git add