git: stage only new files

Question

When I have:

• dirty working directory,
• dirty staging area,
• and I copied some new files to the project,

how do I stage only the

Answer 1

A little improvement to the solution of bstpierre, you can use this variation to be able to specify the directory in which you want to add files:

[alias]
  adduntracked="!f() { git add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard $@); }; f"