Track but don't stage files with git?

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I have a lot of untracked styles. I want to add them to the changes that GIT is aware of but are not staged for commit.

My reason is that my IDE has git integration and I want to view the diffs with this. If the changes are untracked I'm not able to diff them. using git add . is very time consuming as I then need to unstage the changes repeatedly.

You could use `git diff` to see the difference between your files and staging area. — alex, Mar 21 '16 at 15:53
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12365086/diff-in-phpstorm — Rodrigo Celebrone, Mar 21 '16 at 16:00
http://blog.jetbrains.com/webide/2013/02/comparing-files-and-folders-within-your-ide/ — Rodrigo Celebrone, Mar 21 '16 at 16:02
git add --intent-to-add does not work. It stages the change to be committed. — Evanss, Mar 21 '16 at 16:48
You want to have the files tracked, but you don't want them to be staged. Not sure that's possible considering that in order for a file to become tracked, it first must be staged. — Makoto, Mar 21 '16 at 19:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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If your reason to not stage the files is to see the diff, you can parameterize the diff command, as explained in How do I show the changes which have been staged?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered Mar 21 '16 at 18:09

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