Sometimes, it makes sense to forbid git commit when there are untracked files, because you should add them either to files to commit or gitignore. And an option like -f to force this commit is also necessary. So is there any option/plugin/etc to do that? Thank you very much.
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You can add a pre-commit hook that exits with a non-zero value if you find untracked files (you could examine the output of git status --porcelain -u to determine their presence--look for lines beginning with "?"). Then you can override the commit verification with git commit --no-verify if you don't care about the untracked files.
Edit: Thanks to @Jefromi; I don't have my git environment at hand to test. He also notes that this command should identify the presence of untraced files: git status -u | grep '^# Untracked files:$'.
Mark Peters
2010-08-20 18:19:30
I think you want to examine the output of `git status --porcelain -u`, not `git status -u`. All the `-u` does is make sure that untracked files will be listed, which they will be anyway unless it's turned off in the config. The `--porcelain` is what makes it easy to parse with a script, with the `??` at the beginning of the line, instead of you having to read and find the "Untracked files" section. That option was added in v1.6.4.
Jefromi
2010-08-20 19:18:15
Of course, if all you need to know is if there are untracked files, just do `git status -u | grep '^# Untracked files:$'`
Jefromi
2010-08-20 19:19:07