# On "git status"

4 messages from 2009-04-24 to 2009-04-24. Participants: Ulrich Windl, Michael J Gruber, Matthieu Moy.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19042

## Ulrich Windl, 2009-04-24 11:24

Subject: On "git status"
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Hi,

I'm unsure it exists already, but "git status" doesn't display the tracked files. 
Would it make sense to have those reported with a "git status -v" (for verbose)?
(You know: I'm thinking about "cvs status"...)

Regards,
Ulrich

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## Michael J Gruber, 2009-04-24 11:40

Subject: Re: On "git status"
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Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:24:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm unsure it exists already, but "git status" doesn't display the tracked files. 
> Would it make sense to have those reported with a "git status -v" (for verbose)?
> (You know: I'm thinking about "cvs status"...)

"git status" is basically "git commit --dry-run", which is different
from "cvs/svn/hg status".

"git diff --name-status" gives output similar to those.

"git ls-files" allows to list all tracked files.

Michael

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## Ulrich Windl, 2009-04-24 12:39

Subject: Re: On "git status"
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On 24 Apr 2009 at 13:40, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Ulrich Windl venit, vidit, dixit 24.04.2009 13:24:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm unsure it exists already, but "git status" doesn't display the tracked files. 
> > Would it make sense to have those reported with a "git status -v" (for verbose)?
> > (You know: I'm thinking about "cvs status"...)
> 
> "git status" is basically "git commit --dry-run", which is different
> from "cvs/svn/hg status".
> 
> "git diff --name-status" gives output similar to those.
> 
> "git ls-files" allows to list all tracked files.

OK, so many commands to learn.... Still shouldn't "git status --help" be able to 
display some help text (other than "man page not found")?

Regards,
Ulrich

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## Matthieu Moy, 2009-04-24 12:45

Subject: Re: On "git status"
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"Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

> OK, so many commands to learn.... Still shouldn't "git status --help" be able to 
> display some help text (other than "man page not found")?

It is. You, or your distro, miss-installed it (maybe "make
install-doc" ?)

-- 
Matthieu

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