Hi Jonathan, On 09/03/2010 08:39 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 > Thanks for your answer. I'm currently using git diff-index HEAD --cached This seems to do what I was looking for. git status --porcelain doesn't exist on my old cygwin git (I assume it's proably a little too old) -- 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