I also have this question posted to stack overflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22792906/how-do-i-produce-every-possible-git-status ), but perhaps this is a better place to ask this question. In working on some code which provides an interface to existing git repositories the question I had was "what actions should I present to a user", which lead to the question, "what does a user need to do to generate that condition", which lead to developing this gist: https://gist.github.com/the-michael-toy/9907309 ... which is a ruby script which tries to produce a repository with a file in every possible "git-status" XY condition Of the 24 possibilities (not counting ignored) in git-status, there are 7 that I can't figure out how to generate. D M deleted from index C [ MD] copied in index D D unmerged, both deleted A U unmerged, added by us U A unmerged, added by them any clues, including pointers to "just go read XXX" would be appreciated. -- 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