# Question: How to list files that haven't been modified? 2 messages from 2008-10-04 to 2008-10-04. Participants: Mark Burton, Elijah Newren. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15782 ## Mark Burton, 2008-10-04 20:07 Subject: Question: How to list files that haven't been modified? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20081004T195935-879%40post.gmane.org ``` Hi, It's still early days for me and I haven't yet discovered how to ask git to list all the files in a tree that don't have pending modifications (staged or not). I have read about ls-files but it doesn't seem to offer that option. As far as I can tell, it can list the files known to git and the files that have been modified but not the difference between those sets. Thanks, Mark ``` ## Elijah Newren, 2008-10-04 23:01 Subject: Re: Question: How to list files that haven't been modified? Message-ID: <51419b2c0810041601g5f9e3007p70af60b5db7a066a@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/51419b2c0810041601g5f9e3007p70af60b5db7a066a%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Mark Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > It's still early days for me and I haven't yet discovered how to ask git to list > all the files in a tree that don't have pending modifications (staged or not). I > have read about ls-files but it doesn't seem to offer that option. As far as I > can tell, it can list the files known to git and the files that have been > modified but not the difference between those sets. You could manually construct the difference between the lists: $ comm -3 <(git ls-files) <(git ls-files --modified) ```