From: deskinm@umich.edu
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: How to list versioned files with modification status
Message-ID: <20081004225244.GD3052@riemann.deskinm.fdns.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0810041534o7b38507qe63db47cd07fdc16@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:34:31AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 2008/10/5 Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>:
> > Alex Riesen <raa.lkml <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> 2008/10/4 Mark Burton <markb <at> smartavionics.com>:
> >> > I would like to be able to easily find those files in a git tree that
> >> > don't have pending modifications. Although ls-files can list the
> >> > files that are modified, it can't list those that aren't or list all
> >> > files with their modification status.
> >>
> >> Maybe if you look at git diff and diff-index,  you will find something
> >> what suits you better? Because "modification" is just a difference
> >> between a known (recorded in a commit or index) state and your
> >> working tree.
> >
> > 'git diff --name-status' looks useful but it only shows the files that have
> > changed - I would like to see the names of the files that haven't changed.
> 
> There is nothing to do something like that, but...
> 
> > Even svn could do that (svn status).
> 
> what exactly are trying to achieve? It is just strange that no one
> asked for something like this before...

Apologies for the duplicate message; fighting between gmail and
vger.kernel.org.

Here's a terrible way to do this:

$ GIT_EDITOR=: git commit -a -m 'throwaway' >/dev/null
$ (git ls-tree -r HEAD; git ls-tree -r HEAD~1) \
| sort | uniq -d | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* [^ ]* [^\t]*\t//'
$ git reset HEAD~1 >/dev/null

Deskin Miller