This broke my "is this clean?" sanity check and very much violates the man page description. (I am now using `git diff --name-only` instead at Joel's suggestion.) $ git status On branch guilt/repro Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: tools/repro-build.sh Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) .cache/ ANALYSIS NOTES SHA256SUMS SHA256SUMS.asc badpeer.json base channels.out.xz no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") $ git status -u no On branch guilt/repro nothing to commit, working tree clean $ git --version git version 2.19.1 $ Cheers, Rusty.