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.
Answer
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