How can we move files from untracked to unstaged in magit?

s move files from untracked to staged.

I don't believe git has a notion of that. If a file is untracked what would it mean to have it unstaged?

Right. I am using magit. Basically I want to move files to another branch. but branch is not changing because files are not commited.

but branch changing is permitted with untracked files

so change away

@ahmed1hsn you probably want to try stashing

stage your untracked changes and then stash, switch to another branch, then apply/pop stash

i don't believe you can stash untracked files

ah good point

right

stage them first

@theeternalpulse untracked files are not being stashed

right

at the end of the day, if you can guarantee you added unique files that aren't on any other branch, you can switch

have you hit $? there may be more going on than you think

right staged ones are stashed.

should bring up the logs

I generally stash/apply since if I make a mistake and delete I still have them

or I do snapshots to just have some code lying around jic

How snapshots differ from stashing?

snapshot creates a stash without checking out HEAD

so it just takes a picture of your working directory

and puts it in the stash area

oh very cool. I didn't know that.

yeah, It's really a piece of mind feature, ideally I'd just be committing/pushing routinely

should be z Z

I just looked this up too @ahmed1hsn

z w     (magit-stash-worktree)
Create a stash of unstaged changes in the working tree. Untracked files are included according to infix arguments. One prefix argument is equivalent to --include-untracked while two prefix arguments are equivalent to --all.

what do without checking out HEAD mean?

basically without wiping out your work-tree changes

so snapshot does a stash, but doesn't get rid of the files

any tips on how to setup a personal blog with a minimal amount of effort?

gists on github?

that’s a little too minimal 😛 I’m looking for a simple static template, with just a list of posts and a nice layout for each post

I use Octopress and GitHub pages for http://corfield.org (and some other sites).

this Hugo theme look promising, I’ll give it a shot tomorrow: https://github.com/nodejh/hugo-theme-cactus-plus, thanks @deleted-user!

Hugo is OK to use, as long as you find a nice theme. I struggled to find a theme that worked just the way I wanted it to, though, and the theme tutorials seemed to lack a lot of details