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Nic Foster
Nic Foster

Reputation: 2894

Git alias to add files and then show status is showing from parent directory

I work in C# with Unity, and it often touches a lot of files that don't want to commit. My changes that I want to commit are almost always exclusively .cs files. I created a git alias to stage all of my .cs file changes while ignoring everything else. That alias worked, but I realized that after doing the add that I always end up double-checking the results by doing a git status, so I decided to combine the two into a single alias.

addcs = !git add ./\\*.cs && git status

This alias works, however, the git status always shows the results as if I was calling it from the parent branch.

So just doing a git status might show up like this:

On branch main
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
    modified:   Scripts/Foo.cs

Calling my alias, which calls a git status within it, shows up like this:

On branch main
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
    modified:   ParentDirectory/Scripts/Foo.cs

I tried an alternate alias, thinking that maybe the ./ within my alias might be somehow affecting the git status, but this alias doesn't behave any differently:

addcs = !git add '**/*.cs' && git status

I'm curious if anyone knows why the git status might be behaving this way, and if there's something I can change with my alias to avoid it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (1)

dani-vta
dani-vta

Reputation: 6890

You could add an unconditional refresh of the index between the addition and the status check with git update-index --really-refresh.

Like --refresh, but checks stat information unconditionally, without regard to the "assume unchanged" setting.

Your alias could be rewritten as follows:

git config --local alias.my-add '!sh -c "git add *.cs && git update-index --really-refresh && git status"'

Upvotes: 0

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