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Reputation: 2192

Is there a way to verbose 'git add' output by default?

I can verbose the output of the git commit command by default with git config --global commit.verbose true.

This makes an entry in the .gitconfig:

[commit]
    verbose = true

I tried the same with the git add command:

[add]
    verbose = true

resp.: git config --global add.verbose true

However, this does not work (also tab-completion doesn't show me the configuration option add.verbose whereas it does for commit.verbose).

Does anybody know if there is an option to enable this function?

I am aware of work-arounds like setting aliases, but it remains a work-around and not a 100% solution.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 567

Answers (2)

Shweta Gupta
Shweta Gupta

Reputation: 786

Not a direct solution, but if your main concern is to obtain concise information about your actions, you can try git add --interactive

Upvotes: -1

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329592

Strange: the need for a similar "add.verbose" config never came up in the Git mailing-list.

"commit.verbose" itself introduced in commit aaab842, May 2016, Git v2.9.0-rc0 by Pranit Bauva (pranitbauva1997), as part of the 'pb/commit-verbose-config' patch.

See commit aaab842, commit de45dbb, commit e0070e8, commit 98baeb7, commit 7d17715 (05 May 2016), and commit 36e6a5b, commit 8425b7e (12 Apr 2016) by Pranit Bauva (pranitbauva1997).
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano (gitster), and Eric Sunshine (sunshineco).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 5d5f1c2, 23 May 2016)

I don't know why the same feature was not considered for git add.

So yes, alias or git script wrapper as shown here is a good alternative, but not, as you noted, a complete solution..

Upvotes: 2

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