Git Tower: How to show untracked files in Modified list?

Question

When I add new files to a directory being tracked by git, the files do not appear in the Modified view in Tower. I can add them by going to All view, navigating to the file, right clicking and then Add, but that's a pain. I'm surprised they don't show up automatically, and I'm wondering if there's a way to do it.

Answer 1

Turns out this is not a Git Tower issue, but controlled by a setting in the git repo.

In Terminal, navigate to the directory for the git repository and then enter

git config status.showuntrackedfiles normal (or all)

status.showuntrackedfiles was set to "no". The default is "normal". Clearly I'm using Tower to avoid the command line, and I've never heard of "git config status anything"; so how this came to be I have no idea. I sent a suggestion to the developer to add a checkbox to toggle showing untracked files in Modified view.