Here me out before you think this is just another post which runs rubocop only on changed files. There's four things different here

1. We run rubocop on newly added and renamed files as well. No need to stage them.(I found a few tutorials online that don't consider this)
2. Skip deleted files
3. Works on both staged and unstaged files with same code
4. We use Git Status instead, for the sake of first point.

First let me give the command to you straight

git status --porcelain | grep -E -v '^(D| D|RD)' | awk '{ print $NF }' | xargs rubocop

Lets break this down

git status --porcelain

This gets all the files that have been changed, added or deleted.--porcelain is a easy to parse output format

grep -E -v '^(D| D|RD)'

We remove all deleted files and renamed+deleted files if any. We dont want to run rubocop on our deleted files

awk '{ print $NF }'

This one is useful for one edge case. When we rename a staged file. For example if we rename a controller , the output ofgit status --porcelain is as follows

R  app/controllers/home_controller.rb -> app/controllers/house_controller.rb

Theawk command withNF fetches only the last column

xargs rubocop

xargs run the rubocop command on each file

Alias it

Adding alias requires a small modification to the script. This is because we dont want $NF to be expanded on declaration.

alias rubogit="git status --porcelain |  grep -E -v '^(D| D|RD)' | awk '{ print \$NF }' | xargs rubocop "

Let me know if you had any edge case that didn't work with this command