bash - 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 new ones?

git alias adduntracked=…

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)