git status -> Show files that will be added (staged) in subdirectories

Question

Say I start a git repository in a folder, and I have several subdirectories in it.

I have several globbing patterns .gitignore to exclude files in the s

Answer 1

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard

Every path in your worktree that isn't staged (-o) and won't be ignored by git add (--exclude-standard).

Answer 2

You can simply use

git add --dry-run .

in the root of your repository which gives you a list of any file in any sub directory that would be added while considering .gitignore.

Answer 3

use git command git ls-files -o to list untracked file

instead -o use -c --cached Show cached files in the output (default)

-d --deleted Show deleted files in the output

-m --modified Show modified files in the output

Answer 4

How about putting a .gitignore file in your sub directories instead along the line of

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except these file
!.gitignore
!file1
!file2
!file3

Answer 5

Try:

git status -u

or the long form:

git status --untracked-files

which will show individual files in untracked directories.

Here's the detailed description of -u option from git-status man page:

-u[<mode>]
--untracked-files[=<mode>]

Show untracked files.

The mode parameter is optional (defaults to all), and is used to specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the default is normal, i.e. show untracked files and directories.

The possible options are:

• no - Show no untracked files
• normal - Shows untracked files and directories
• all - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.

The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable documented in git-config(1).