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

From: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2017, 21:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJZjrdVSX_HB0O_eiQk6bg_UF0=71PNVa1rBwSbpHFCbOrpAOQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> 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?

You can use `git status -s` and match on the modification type (M corresponds to modified, A to new files). See the man page for more details on the interface.

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>> 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.