Commit and automatically add all untracked files

Question

I often forgot that I have some new files and directly do,

git commit -a -m "My commit message" 

This only commits changed files, and I have to do add the remaining files in a new commit. This means that there are two separate commits although logically they are part of the same task.

The easiest way I know to include untracked files in the commit via two consecutive commands:

git add -A git commit -a -m "My commit message" 

Is it possible to have the same effect like the above in one command?

Answer 1

Create a file in your execution path called (no extension): git-add-commit-untracked

Put this in it:

#!/bin/bash message=${0} git add -A git commit -am "$message" 

Then: git-add-commit-untracked "Commit message"

You can use a shorter name for the file though. I left it lengthy for illustrative purposes.