'git add --patch' to include new files?

Question

When I run git add -p, is there a way for git to select newly made files as hunks to select??

So if I make a new file called foo.java, then run

Answer 1

git add -p is really about adding changes to already tracked files.

The command to interactively select files to add is git add -i. For example:

$ git add -i

*** Commands ***
  1: status   2: update   3: revert   4: add untracked
  5: patch    6: diff     7: quit     8: help
What now> a
  1: another-new.java
  2: new.java
Add untracked>> 2
  1: another-new.java
* 2: new.java
Add untracked>> 
added one path

*** Commands ***
  1: status   2: update   3: revert   4: add untracked
  5: patch    6: diff     7: quit     8: help
What now> q
Bye.
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage)

        new file:   new.java

Untracked files:
  (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)

        another-new.java

(The real command has colors which I couldn't cut-and-paste here, so it's nicer than it seems)

Actually, the patch command of git add -i does the same as git add -p, so the second is a subset of the first (even though I admit I love add -p and hate add -i myself!).