Automatically show status after git add

Question

My usual git workflow is

<make changes>
git add FILES
git status
git commit -m "some remarks"

where I need the git status just to check if I added the correct files.

Is there a way to tell git to automatically display the status after each git add?

You could probably create an alias that executes `add` first, and then `status`. E.g. `git config --global alias.ad "!git add $1; git status"`, but I’m not sure if you can keep supporting all the `add` parameters that way. — poke, Jul 31 '13 at 11:34

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 11:36

14

When run with -v (verbose) option, git add outputs the name of files that were added:

» git add -v hello?
add 'hello1'
add 'hello2'

answered Jul 31 '13 at 11:36

CharlesB

devnull · Answer 2 · 2014-01-02T05:25:30.983

13

You can use an alias:

[alias]
    gitadd = !sh -c 'git add -- "$@" && git status' --

make changes
$ git gitadd FILES
$ git commit -m "some remarks"

Since git aliases work from the repository root¹, you could modify the alias to make it work from any other directory:

[alias]
    gitadd = !sh -c 'cd "$1" && shift && git add -- "$@" && git status' --

Now invoke it by saying

git gitadd $PWD file1 file2 ...

¹: Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory.

edited Jan 02 '14 at 05:25

answered Jul 31 '13 at 11:41

devnull

1

The `$@` was what I was looking for! Thanks ^^ – poke Jul 31 '13 at 11:43
1

it would be `git gitadd` with that alias, imho – mnagel Jul 31 '13 at 12:13
@devnull I added the above lines to ~/.gitconfig but when typing `git gitadd somefile` it says `Nothing specified, nothing added. Maybe you wanted to say 'git add .'?` – flonk Jul 31 '13 at 13:15
@flonk That's odd. What if you say `$*` instead of `$@` in the alias. – devnull Jul 31 '13 at 13:16
@devnull Ooops, unfortunately it only works on the repository's root folder. i.e. `git gitadd somedir/somefile` works, but `git gitadd somefile` from inside `somedir`fails telling me `fatal: pathspec 'somefile' did not match any files` – flonk Sep 17 '13 at 13:13
@devnull What is even more strange, when doing `git gitadd somedir/somefile` from *inside* `somedir`, it works. Your solution seems to require filenames relative to the repository root. – flonk Dec 20 '13 at 09:29
@devnull couldn't one tell the alias to `cd` to the place from which it was called before performing `git add ...`? – flonk Dec 20 '13 at 13:36
1

@flonk Figured a workaround. Modify the alias to `gitadd = !sh -c 'cd $1 && shift && git add -- "$@" && git status' --` and invoke it by saying `git gitadd $PWD file1 file2 ...`. – devnull Dec 20 '13 at 14:27

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '18 at 15:47

Here's what I have using the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/26243454 and combining it with devnull's answer:

[alias]
    sadd = !sh -c 'cd -- ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && git add -- "$@" && git status' --

This way you don't need to pass in the working directory manually.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '13 at 11:35

0

You can do it via creating an alias that executes add first and then status using git config commnad ..

answered Jul 31 '13 at 11:35

Rohitashv Singhal

4 Answers4