Git Command for adding (not committing) all new files in one shot

Question

We are using Git as a revision control system for our Rails project.

Now, I have a bunch of untracked files in my application directory and I would like to add all those untracked files in one shot to the Git index. I referred to the Git documentation and I would like to check if I understood it correctly.

For adding all untracked files, the command is:

git add -A

OR

git add --all

Please correct me if it is correct or not. Thanks for your help :)

Answer 1

You can either add tracked and untracked files, or only untracked files as follows.

Both of your examples add tracked and untracked files.

If you'd like to add only untracked files, you could launch Git's interactive mode:

$ git add -i

You can then choose to add untracked files by typing a and pressing RETURN. After that you can quit by typing q followed by RETURN.

Also see this StackOverflow answer for more possibilities.