From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:14:39 GMT
Subject: Re: how to list all files that will be comitted
Message-ID: <20080625161439.GA1794@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <17C0F998-66C0-4DFC-90EB-B85FF6E07844@gmail.com>

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