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Re: how to list all files that will be comitted

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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2008, 16:14 UTC
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On 2008-06-25 12:01:49 -0400, Rhodes, Kate wrote:
> yeah, but i was hoping for plumbing, not porcelain, that showed just
> what i wanted so that i didn't have to parse status' output.

Unless you want a listing of all the files in the index, you probably want to call diff-index.

  git diff-index --cached <tree-ish>

gives you the diff between the index and a tree-ish. With the --name-only option, you get only the filenames and not all the modes, blob sha1s, etc.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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