On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:06, Jeff Epler <jepler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GIT-VERSION-GEN uses something like this (shell script): > git update-index -q --refresh > test -z "$(git diff-index --name-only HEAD --)" || VN="$VN-dirty" ;; On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:19, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Fantastic, this is exactly what I was after! Thanks! Cheers Adam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html