From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:43:54 GMT
Subject: Re: list of files that have been added/removed
Message-ID: <7vvdp5r3s5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <31043.1239831470@relay.known.net>

layer <layer@known.net> writes:

>   I see the changes in the index with "git status" as "deleted" or
>   "added".  
>
> I meant "new file" here.  Of course I can process the output of "git
> status", but I was looking for a cleaner method, if there is one.

"Process" as in "Read in a script and have it act on the information"?

git diff-index --name-status HEAD

would be one Kosher way for the scripts, and if your scripting language
can handle NUL terminated string, giving -z option would make your script
more robust against funny pathnames.

git diff-index --name-only --diff-filter=A HEAD

if you only care about "new file" and nothing else.