From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:38:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Is a given file known to git?
Message-ID: <47D636FC.2060203@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <47D6317D.7030700@melosgmbh.de>

Christoph Duelli schrieb:
> Given a repository and a path p to a file in it:
> Is it possible (how?) to detect (in a bash script) if the file pointed
> to by p is "known" to git?
> Something along the line:
> if `git knows p?
> then
> ...
> fi

For simplicity, I'll assume with "known to git" you mean whether the
current branch's tip has some content at the given path. Then you could write:

	if git rev-parse HEAD:"$p" >/dev/null 2>&1
	then
		# git knows about $p
	else
		# git does not know about $p
	fi

-- Hannes