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

To add all untracked files git command is

git add -A

Also if you want to get more details about various available options , you can type command

git add -i

instead of first command , with this you will get more options including option to add all untracked files as shown below :

$ git add -i warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in README.txt. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory. warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in package.json.

* Commands * 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help What now> a

Answer 2

Lot of good tips here, but inside Powershell I could not get it to work.

I am a .NET developer and we mainly still use Windows OS as we haven't made use of .Net core and cross platform so much, so my everyday use with Git is in a Windows environment, where the shell used is more often Powershell and not Git bash.

The following procedure can be followed to create an aliased function for adding untracked files in a Git repository.

Inside your $profile file of Powershell (in case it is missing - you can run: New-Item $Profile)

notepad $Profile

Now add this Powershell method:

function AddUntracked-Git() {
 &git ls-files -o --exclude-standard | select | foreach { git add $_ }
}

Save the $profile file and reload it into Powershell. Then reload your $profile file with: . $profile

This is similar to the source command in *nix environments IMHO.

So next time you, if you are developer using Powershell in Windows against Git repo and want to just include untracked files you can run:

AddUntracked-Git

This follows the Powershell convention where you have verb-nouns.

Answer 3

git add . (add all files in this directory)

git add -all (add all files in all directories)

git add -N can be helpful for for listing which ones for later....

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard gives untracked files, so you can do something like below ( or add an alias to it):

git add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard)