Git should be able to automatically track new files

I can make changes to a file in VS Code and Git will track those changes (even though they are not immediately staged, I can stage them easily when committing by using git commit -a). Same thing goes for files that I delete. However, new files that I create are a different story; Git does not track them and thus they are not staged when I use git commit -a. I have used IDEs before that give the option to automatically run git add on a file when I create it. I would like to have the same option in VS Code.

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[JordanLongstaff]

That’s not a problem for me. If I make a new file with Android Studio (which runs git add on new files upon creation) and then make changes to it, git status shows two changes to the same file, one staged (“new file”) and one not (“modified”). But then if I run git commit -a, both changes will get committed.