Does Git Add have a verbose switch

Question

I am in the process of moving all my private an public repo s over to github  One of the decisions I have made is to only use the console as it means a smaller tooling footprint if I ever need to change PCs  etc   I would be a huge user of console applications and being new to git I decided to purchase Tekpub s Mastering Git series since it shows you how to intergrate git bash as a toolbar   Everything is working fine except for the add all command which is   git add     It seems to be working but I don t get any indication of it working or not  Is there a verbose switch  I think that is what it would be called  that would say what files were tracked after the command is launched   I am using Visual Studio 2010 with the standard install of git  Not Git extensions

User · Answer

I was debugging an issue with git and needed some very verbose output to figure out what was going wrong. I ended up setting the GIT_TRACE environment variable:

export GIT_TRACE=1
git add *.txt

You can also use these on the same line:

GIT_TRACE=1 git add *.txt

Output:

14:06:05.508517 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git add test.txt test2.txt
14:06:05.544890 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git config --get oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty

User · Answer

For some git-commands you can specify --verbose    git  command  --verbose   or   git  command  -v    Make sure the switch is after the actual git command  Otherwise - it won t work   Also useful   git  command  --dry-run

User · Answer

Well  like  almost  every console program for unix-like systems  git does not tell you anything if a command succeeds  It prints out something only if there s something wrong   However if you want to be sure of what just happened  just type  git status   and see which changes are going to be committed and which not  I suggest you to use this before every commit  just to be sure that you are not forgetting anything   Since you seem new to git  here is a link to a free online book that introduces you to git  It s very useful  it writes about basics as well as well known different workflows  http   git-scm com book

User · Answer

You can use git add -i to get an interactive version of git add  although that s not exactly what you re after  The simplest thing to do is  after having git added  use git status to see what is staged or not   Using git add   isn t really recommended unless it s your first commit  It s usually better to explicitly list the files you want staged  so that you don t start tracking unwanted files accidentally  temp files and such

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