Automatically show status after git add

Question

My usual git workflow is

git add FILES
git status
git commit -m \"some remarks\"

where I need the git status

Answer 1

You can use an alias:

[alias]
    gitadd = !sh -c 'git add -- "$@" && git status' --

make changes
$ git gitadd FILES
$ git commit -m "some remarks"

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Since git aliases work from the repository root1, you could modify the alias to make it work from any other directory:

[alias]
    gitadd = !sh -c 'cd "$1" && shift && git add -- "$@" && git status' -- 

Now invoke it by saying

git gitadd $PWD file1 file2 ...

1: Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory.