Re: Suggestion: git status --untracked

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Feb 11, 2008, 10:13 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq63wvztqc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <b77c1dce0802110146o708e26a7lef56683f6b823365@mail.gmail.com>

"Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> writes:

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> I find myself wanting sometimes to filter out the output of
> git-status, to feed it to another command (for example, git-add, or
> rm, or cat >> .gitignore). However it's not currently very easy to
> parse in a one-liner.
>
> I'm suggesting to add options to control this behaviour. My suggestion
> would be (for a start) to add an option --untracked that will list all
> untracked files on stdout, without a leading "#\t", and without
> listing the added / modified / removed files.

Actually, it's already available (since a few weeks in master IIRC, not sure whether it's in the latest release), as

  git ls-files --exclude-standard -o

The --exclude-standard tells git ls-files to read .gitignore and friends as most commands do, and -o means "show 'other' files".

Older gits didn't have the --exclude-standard, so you had to say --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore (or stg like that) instead.

-- 
Matthieu