Re: Newbie question: how can I list added files?

From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2010, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTin-MEBUYheTkFbeKIBj5peVV-sPa7hZSg-wMgBi@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100623183050.GA20842@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:50:11AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > "git diff --name-only --diff-filter=A HEAD"?
>>
>> Thank you, but "Nope."
>> My added file doesn't show anything and not using the
>> "--diff-filter" thing shows both added and not added files:
>>
>> $ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=A HEAD
>> $ git-status
>> # On branch master
>> # Changes to be committed:
>> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
>> #
>> #       modified:   sw/embedded/platform/strad/scripts/mk_relsrc.sh
>> [...]
>> $ git diff --name-only HEAD
>> chip/chopin2/up/hdl/.sopc_builder/install.ptf
>> chip/mozart/up_oam/hdl/.sopc_builder/install.ptf
>> chip/mozart2/up/hdl/.sopc_builder/install.ptf
>> chip/mozart2/up_ft/hdl/.sopc_builder/install.ptf
>> sw/embedded/nios2/system/system.stf
>> sw/embedded/platform/strad/scripts/mk_relsrc.sh
>> sw/projects/nios2/modules/system/lib/system.stf

Hello,

"--name-status" just adds "M" in front of that list.

> Usually when we say "added file", it means "a new file which has just
> been added". Did you mean "a file which was modified, but whose contents
> I have already added to the index"?

I mean a file that was "git add"-ed and thus is now staged. One would first guess that "git-ls-files --stage" would get what I want, but no, it lists every file in the repo. Not what I need.

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> In that case, I think you just want:
>
>  git diff --cached --name-only
>
> to see files that differ between the index and HEAD (i.e., things which
> will be committed).

*YES*  That *IS* what I want.  Thank you!!!  Regards, Bruce

P.S. Is it really so rare that someone would want this info that it should wind up being so obscure? I now have a new alias:

   alias git-ls-staged="git diff --cached --name-only"