From: Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:20:03 GMT
Subject: Re: status letters consistency in log and ls-files
Message-ID: <ee2a733e0809262020l318b0ac3v560400d95a5ba2b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080927002949.GA25586@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 9/26/08, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 07:24:11PM -0400, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>
>  > Another script takes output of
>  >   git ls-files -v -c -d -m -o -k
>  > and for each file pulls together all the file status letters in one record.
>
>
> OK. I was thinking I could suggest just using "git diff" here instead.
>  E.g.,:
>
>   git diff --name-status
>
>  will show you the modified and deleted files. But since you are using
>  "-c" to show _all_ cached files, I think only ls-files can do that
>  (since diff is, obviously, about files with differences).
>
>  So I'm not sure there is a straight-forward solution short of
>  translating the status codes.
>
>  -Peff

Moreover, git diff would not show untracked files while git ls-files
will include them and label '?'

--Leo--