Adam Mercer <ramercer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> As part of a python script I need to determine if a tree has any
> uncommitted changes, so far I am been using:
>
> # determine tree status
> status_cmd = 'git status'
> status_output = run_external_command(status_cmd,
> honour_ret_code=False)[1].strip()
> if status_output.endswith('no changes added to commit (use "git add"
> and/or "git commit -a")'):
> git_status = 'UNCLEAN: Some modifications not committed'
> else:
> git_status = 'CLEAN: All modifications committed'
>
> but I feel that this relies to heavily on the porcelain and that there
> should be a better way to accomplish this without relying on parsing
> the output of git-status.
>
> Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this?
Use plumbing commands.
"git diff-files" will show changes you have in the work tree compared to
the index.
"git diff-index HEAD" will show changes you have in the work tree compared
to the HEAD.
"git diff-index --cached HEAD" will show changes you have in the index
compared to the HEAD.
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