Re: Teach git status to do "git diff --name-status HEAD"

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2008, 11:04 UTC
Message-ID: <m3ej3jm3ux.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <48D0C2DF.7010308@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

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> Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 17.09.2008 08:40:
> > I just did
> > 
> > $ git checkout -b mdl19-offlinetony
> > A       README.offline
> > M       lib/javascript.php
> >     (...)
> > A       lib/offline/offlinemoodle.user.js
> > 
> > I *like* this "brief status" style - takes me back to my cvs days :-).
> > Perusing the source I found show_local_changes() which in turn led me
> > to trying `git diff --name-status HEAD`. Now, including 'HEAD' in an
> > alias defined in git config is going to lead to trouble... :-/

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> > I might still make an alias to `git diff --name-status`. This would be
> > a great thing to have as git status "--brief" IMHO... :-)
> 
> git status also shows untracked files. I don't know how to tell diff to
> show untracked files as well. --diff-filter=X doesn't do it.

git-ls-files?

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Jakub Narebski
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