How to find Not Versioned Files in TortoiseGit?
Jeff Dege
I'm experimenting with Git and TortoiseGit, after many years of working in SVN.
I have a fairly large project that I'm using as a testbed (48,139 files in 10,505 directories).
I have successfully created a Git repository, added and committed the files, pushed them to a second bare repository, pulled them to a third repository from that bare repository, etc., and everything is working fine.
Except - when I make changes to the project that include adding new files.
I can easily see files that have been deleted and files that have been modified, using "TortoiseGit->Check for modifications", but I don't see how to fine new unversioned and not ignored files.
When I go down into a directory that has a new file and use "TortoiseGit->Check for modifications" I clearly see the file listed with status unknown.
But when I do the same from the root directory of the project the files are there, but they're buried a list of tens of thousands of ignored files and are impossible to find.
That is, in the "Check for modifications" dialog if I check the "Show unversioned files" and uncheck the "Show ignored files", I still see the ignored files.
The summary at the bottom right shows "files: normal=0, non-versioned=25485, modified=0, added=0, deleted=0, conflicted=0".
If I uncheck both "show unversioned" and "show ignored" I see no files in the list.
If I uncheck "show unversioned" and check "show ignored" I see 25,485 files in the list.
But if I check "show unversioned" and uncheck "show ignored" I still see 25,485 files in the list.
And I'd expect to see only the unversioned files that had not been ignored.
What am I doing wrong? Am I simply using the wrong tool?
What I am used to doing, before a commit, is to review my changes.
If a file has been modified I review its changes and decide whether they are changes I want to make, or simply changes I made in passing that I don't want to commit.
If a file is missing I decide whether I want to remove it from version control, or if it's deleting was an accident.
For a file that is not versioned, I decide whether to add it or to ignore it.
Even if I had made a practice of adding new files to git as I created them, I'd still want to review any unversioned files prior to every commit. And I don't see an easy way to do that in TortoiseGit.