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Re: How to `git status' without scrambling modified with new, etc

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2017, 14:24 UTC
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
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> This is probably what everyone sees:
>
> When I run `git status'; I see  modified and newfiles scrambled together
>
> Is there a trick or technique to make that output show each category
> separately?
>
> Or do folks just a throw a `sort' in there (git status|sort) and lose
> the color ouput?

If you set color.ui=auto it'll disable coloring when it detects that the output isn't to a terminal, i.e. being piped.

It sounds like you want:
    git -c color.ui=always status --short|sort

But there's no native option to sort the status output, but that'll do it for you.

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  1. Harry PutnamMay 5, 2017
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 5, 2017
  3. Samuel LijinMay 5, 2017
  4. Harry PutnamMay 9, 2017

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