From: Constantine Plotnikov Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 07:31:42 GMT Subject: Re: git-ls-files --added? Message-ID: <85647ef50905250031m375a14d9y252444a8bdc250b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vws85y9n7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> Jon Seymour writes: >> ... >>> I am still interested in the rationale for git-ls-files not supporting >>> such an option directly, since git-diff still seems a little indirect. >> >> Partly historical, but more fundamental reason is because ls-files >> plumbing is about the index. >> ... >> Added is _not_ about comparision between the index and the work tree.  It >> is between the HEAD commit and the index, and it does not belong to >> ls-files plumbing. > > Having said all that, I think you might be interested in pursuing > >  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/97830/focus=99134 > > Also, the following thread may serve as a food for thought; it shows that > there is real need for some concise, easy to parse output for people who > want their own Porcelain. > >  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106122/focus=108110 > > In short, ls-files and diff-index _can_ give you what you want, but often > people would want information from both, consolidated. I'm one of those people :) Writing git support for IDEs is quite tricky at times, and status check was one of quite unpleasant experiences. BTW git-diff won't work in situation when the directory was just initialized and there were no commit. In that case added file = staged file and it is possible to use git-ls-files. Constantine