git How to ignore all present untracked files

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Is there a handy way to ignore all untracked files and folders in a git repository   I know about the  gitignore    So git status would provide a clean result again

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I came here trying to solve a slightly different problem. Maybe this will be useful to someone else:

I create a new branch feature-a. as part of this branch I create new directories and need to modify .gitignore to suppress some of them. This happens a lot when adding new tools to a project that create various cache folders. .serverless, .terraform, etc.

Before I'm ready to merge that back to master I have something else come up, so I checkout master again, but now git status picks up those suppressed folders again, since the .gitignore hasn't been merged yet.

The answer here is actually simple, though I had to find this blog to figure it out:

Just checkout the .gitignore file from feature-a branch

git checkout feature-a -- feature-a/.gitignore
git add .
git commit -m "update .gitignore from feature-a branch"

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In case you are not on Unix like OS  this would work on Windows using PowerShell  git status --porcelain         -match                  -replace                Add-Content    gitignore  However   gitignore file has to have a new empty line  otherwise it will append text to the last line no matter if it has content   This might be a better alternative     gi gc    gitignore  res git status --porcelain       -match                  -replace                  res  gi  res   res   Out-File    gitignore

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Found it in the manual     The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of untracked files  It is optional  it defaults to all  and if specified  it must be stuck to the option  e g  -uno  but not -u no     git status -uno

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IMHO better than the accepted answer is to use the following  git config --local status showUntrackedFiles no The accepted answer does not work for when new files are added that are not in  gitignore

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-u no doesn t show unstaged files either   -uno works as desired and shows unstaged  but hides untracked

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Two ways   use the argument -uno to git-status  Here s an example   jenny jenny vmware ft   git status   On branch ft   Untracked files       use  quot git add  lt file gt     quot  to include in what will be committed            foo nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  quot git add quot  to track   jenny jenny vmware ft   git status -uno   On branch ft nothing to commit  working directory clean    Or you can add the files and directories to  gitignore  in which case they will never show up

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If you want to permanently ignore these files  a simple way to add them to  gitignore is    Change to the root of the git tree  git ls-files --others --exclude-standard  gt  gt   gitignore   This will enumerate all files inside untracked directories  which may or may not be what you want

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If you have a lot of untracked files  and don t want to  gitignore  all of them  note that  since git 1 8 3  April  22d 2013   git status will mention the --untracked-files no even if you didn t add that option in the first place       git status  suggests users to look into using --untracked no option when it takes too long

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As already been said  to exclude from status just use   git status -uno    must be  -uno    not  -u no    If you instead want to permanently ignore currently untracked files you can  from the root of your project  launch   git status --porcelain   grep         cut -c4-  gt  gt   gitignore   Every subsequent call to git status will explicitly ignore those files   UPDATE  the above command has a minor drawback  if you don t have a  gitignore file yet your gitignore will ignore itself  This happens because the file  gitignore gets created before the git status --porcelain is executed  So if you don t have a  gitignore file yet I recommend using   echo    git status --porcelain   grep         cut -c4-    gt   gitignore   This creates a subshell which completes before the  gitignore file is created   COMMAND EXPLANATION as I m getting a lot of votes  thank you   I think I d better explain the command a bit    git status --porcelain is used instead of git status --short because manual states  Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts  This is similar to the short output  but will remain stable across git versions and regardless of user configuration   So we have both the parseability and stability  grep       filters only the lines starting with     which  according to the git status manual  correspond to the untracked files  cut -c4- removes the first 3 characters of every line  which gives us just the relative path to the untracked file  the   symbols are pipes  which pass the output of the previous command to the input of the following command  the  gt  gt  and  gt  symbols are redirect operators  which append the output of the previous command to a file or overwrites creates a new file  respectively    ANOTHER VARIANT for those who prefer using sed instead of grep and cut  here s another way   git status --porcelain   sed -n -e  s       p   gt  gt   gitignore

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