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 last few months  I ve often found myself in a position where I ve interactively added some updates to the index and I want to add all of the untracked files to that index before I commit   Is there a way to add only the untracked files to the index without identifying them individually  I don t see anything obvious in the help docs  but maybe I m missing it   Thanks

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People have suggested piping the output of git ls-files to git add but this is going to fail in cases where there are filenames containing white space or glob characters such as *.

The safe way would be to use:

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard -z | xargs -0 git add

where -z tells git to use \0 line terminators and -0 tells xargs the same. The only disadvantage of this approach is that the -0 option is non-standard, so only some versions of xargs support it.

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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

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Not exactly what you re looking for  but I ve found this quite helpful   git add -AN   Will add all files to the index  but without their content  Files that were untracked now behave as if they were tracked  Their content will be displayed in git diff  and you can add then interactively with git add -p

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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       amp 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

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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

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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

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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

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If you have thousands of untracked files  ugh  don t ask  then git add -i will not work when adding    You will get an error stating Argument list too long   If you then also are on Windows  don t ask  2  -  and need to use PowerShell for adding all untracked files  you can use this command   git ls-files -o --exclude-standard   select   foreach   git add

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You can add this to your    gitconfig file    alias      add-untracked     git status --porcelain   awk            print  2      xargs git add    Then  from the commandline  just run   git add-untracked

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I tried this and it worked    git stash  amp  amp  git add    amp  amp  git stash pop   git stash will only put all modified tracked files into separate stack  then left over files are untracked files  Then by doing git add   will stage all files untracked files  as required  Eventually  to get back all modified files from stack by doing git stash pop

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It s easy with git add -i  Type a  for  add untracked    then    for  all    then q  to quit  and you re done   To do it with a single command  echo -e  a n  nq n  git add -i

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