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

This alias will respect your ignore patterns (builtin, global and per-directory, as described by the help for git-ls-files --exclude-standard). It will run at the top level of your tree.

[alias]
adduntracked=!git add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard)

Answer 2

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard | xargs git add

Answer 3

I suggest something like this to copy:

for i in source/path ; do cp source/path/$i ./$i ; git add $i ; done

I'm not very well at shell scripting, but this would be an attempt

Answer 4

git add -u is what I use to stage untracked.

Edit: comments below have reminded me that its git add . that adds untracked (along with changed files, which I think is not what you want?). I use the git add -u to stage deleted files.

Answer 5

If you want to add all untracked files to the staging area:

git add .

I suppose that you want this, while keeping the unstaged changes to tracked files outside of the index.

git stash
git add . 
git stash apply

Would this help?

Answer 6

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"