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Feature request #1242: git add --check

Kind feature request
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Status open
Reporter Greg Hurrell
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Description

Not sure whether this is worth adding or not but I am thinking of adding a --check switch to git add because I sometimes find myself doing stuff like: 

git diff --check long/path
git add long/path

And it would be kind of nice to do:

git add --check long/path

Which would stage the file, but abort if whitespace errors were present.

There are other workflows, of course:

git diff long/path # visual inspection
git add long/path

Or:

git add long/path
git staged # retrospective visual inspection using alias for "git diff --cached"

Or:

git add long/path
git staged --check

But there are definitely some cases where the git add --check workflow would be nicest. I just don't know if it's worth the effort.

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