On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is probably what everyone sees: >> >> When I run `git status'; I see modified and newfiles scrambled together >> >> Is there a trick or technique to make that output show each category >> separately? You can use `git status -s` and match on the modification type (M corresponds to modified, A to new files). See the man page for more details on the interface. >> Or do folks just a throw a `sort' in there (git status|sort) and lose >> the color ouput? > > If you set color.ui=auto it'll disable coloring when it detects that > the output isn't to a terminal, i.e. being piped. > > It sounds like you want: > > git -c color.ui=always status --short|sort > > But there's no native option to sort the status output, but that'll do > it for you.