Does Git Add have a verbose switch

For some git-commands you can specify --verbose,

git 'command' --verbose

or

git 'command' -v

Make sure the switch is after the actual git command. Otherwise - it won't work!

Also useful:

git 'command' --dry-run 

I was debugging an issue with git and needed some very verbose output to figure out what was going wrong. I ended up setting the GIT_TRACE environment variable:

export GIT_TRACE=1
git add *.txt

You can also use these on the same line:

GIT_TRACE=1 git add *.txt

Output:

14:06:05.508517 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git add test.txt test2.txt
14:06:05.544890 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git config --get oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty

You can use git add -i to get an interactive version of git add, although that's not exactly what you're after. The simplest thing to do is, after having git added, use git status to see what is staged or not.

Using git add . isn't really recommended unless it's your first commit. It's usually better to explicitly list the files you want staged, so that you don't start tracking unwanted files accidentally (temp files and such).