From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a -z option to 'git status' to safely feed shell programs with path names Message-ID: <20080517025133.GQ29038@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20080517023340.GG10006@kali.thurne.chezwam.org> Sebastien Gross 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` ? A very large and intrusive looking patch for what can already be obtained easier through existing, stable porcelain. Not something I am in favor of seeing added at this time. -- Shawn.