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What I would like ideally, especially if I am already in interactive mode, is to get prompted in the case where there are untracked files, if I want to add them or not.

you can

gt m -p

[gt modify --patch]

it works well now

I usually do not want to do this

+1 to this. Philosophically, untracked files in

git

aren't a part of the repo and shouldn't be accidentally tracked. This bites me repeatedly when I'm working - especially when I jump back and forth between branches where I've added a new file to

.gitignore

.

Unfortunately this is a decision that was made early on in the development of the CLI (I imagine it was due to trying to make the workflow more like mercurial) and there's no great way for us to roll back the default behavior at this point. We may introduce a configuration for it in the future

Understandable. I'm just adding my plus one so that you get the feedback over time.

for sure! we actually have a doc where we're compiling a list of future configuration options

Well I realize that changing the default is hard now that the cat is out of the bag - still:

the

-u

option is still free I think and there is an interactive prompt when doing gt create and gt modify, where you could have the "only tracked files" option

yeah, these are both easy enough to add!

The unfortunate thing is that git leaves around files which are tracked in one commit but not in another so it's not a matter of just keeping your repo clean. It's a very common pattern you have to deal with.

This got fixed in 1.0.9 🙂

Thank you for the suggestion 🙂