Hi, Gelonida wrote: > for a pre-commit trigger I would like to retrieve the list of modified > files, such, that I could analyze the contents prior to commit. > > what would be the best command for this > > > I thought about using "git status", but wondered, which other command > might return a nicer to parse list. If you look at the git(1) man page, you will find a number of such "low-level (plumbing) interrogation commands" listed. For example: . git diff-index . git diff-files . git update-index . git status --porcelain Hope that helps. -- 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