Re: [PATCH] Add a -z option to 'git status' to safely feed shell programs with path names

From

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Date

May 17, 2008, 02:51 UTC

Message-ID

<20080517025133.GQ29038@spearce.org>

In-Reply-To

<20080517023340.GG10006@kali.thurne.chezwam.org>

Sebastien Gross <seb-git@chezwam.org> wrote:

> Add a -z option to 'git status' to get a list of all files
> but ignored, starting with modification type or 'untracked'
> as prefix and ending with '\0'.

Hmm.  Is the plumbing really that broken that you need to add -z
support to porcelain rather than using the -z support already built
into the plumbing?
 

>  * Remove all untracked files:
> 
>    git status -z | gawk 'BEGIN{RS="\0"; ORS="\0";}/^untracked/ \
> 	{sub("^.+:", "");print}' | xargs -0 -r rm

That I take it is just the long handed way to write `git clean -f` ?
 

>  * List all updated file regardless the modification:
> 
>    git status -z | gawk 'BEGIN{RS="\0"; ORS="\0";}/^updated/ \
> 	{sub("^.+:", "");print}' | xargs -0 -n 1

And this is just the long handed way to write `git diff --name-only` ?

-- 
Shawn.