# list all the untrack files in a git respo

5 messages from 2008-06-04 to 2008-06-04. Participants: Gerb Stralko, Jakub Narebski, Johan Herland, Michael J Gruber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13791

## Gerb Stralko, 2008-06-04 14:05

Subject: list all the untrack files in a git respo
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Is there a way to list only the untracked files in git? git status
works, but i need to do some parsing in order to get a list of
untracked files.  Something like git status --show-only-untracked?

thanks

Jerry

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## Jakub Narebski, 2008-06-04 14:19

Subject: Re: list all the untrack files in a git respo
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"Gerb Stralko" <gerb.stralko@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to list only the untracked files in git? git status
> works, but i need to do some parsing in order to get a list of
> untracked files.  Something like git status --show-only-untracked?

git-status is porcelain, meant for human consumption.  For list
of untracked files use

  $ git ls-files --other --exclude-standard

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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## Johan Herland, 2008-06-04 14:20

Subject: Re: list all the untrack files in a git respo
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On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Gerb Stralko wrote:
> Is there a way to list only the untracked files in git? git status
> works, but i need to do some parsing in order to get a list of
> untracked files.  Something like git status --show-only-untracked?

Is
	git ls-files -o
what you want?

(Depending on your use case, you might also find the --exclude-standard 
and --directory options useful as well. See the git-ls-files manual 
page for details)


...Johan

-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net

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## Gerb Stralko, 2008-06-04 14:41

Subject: Re: list all the untrack files in a git respo
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>        git ls-files -o
>
> ...Johan

This is exactly what i want.  Thanks Johan.

Jerry

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## Michael J Gruber, 2008-06-04 15:55

Subject: Re: list all the untrack files in a git respo
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Gerb Stralko venit, vidit, dixit 04.06.2008 16:05:
> Is there a way to list only the untracked files in git? git status
> works, but i need to do some parsing in order to get a list of
> untracked files.  Something like git status --show-only-untracked?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Jerry

git-ls-files --others --exclude-standard

may be what you are looking for.

Michael

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