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Re: How to list versioned files with modification status

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MBMark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2008, 22:09 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> 2008/10/4 Mark Burton <markb <at> smartavionics.com>:
> > I would like to be able to easily find those files in a git tree that
> > don't have pending modifications. Although ls-files can list the
> > files that are modified, it can't list those that aren't or list all
> > files with their modification status.
> 
> Maybe if you look at git diff and diff-index,  you will find something
> what suits you better? Because "modification" is just a difference
> between a known (recorded in a commit or index) state and your
> working tree.
>

'git diff --name-status' looks useful but it only shows the files that have changed - I would like to see the names of the files that haven't changed. Even svn could do that (svn status).

Thanks,
Mark
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