On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> I find myself wanting sometimes to filter out the output of
> git-status, to feed it to another command (for example, git-add, or
> rm, or cat >> .gitignore). However it's not currently very easy to
> parse in a one-liner.
Here's a one-liner:
git status | sed -ne '/^# Untracked/,${s/#\t//p}'
Unfortunately it is both specific to GNU sed as well as horribly
unreadable.
> I'm suggesting to add options to control this behaviour. My suggestion
> would be (for a start) to add an option --untracked that will list all
> untracked files on stdout, without a leading "#\t", and without
> listing the added / modified / removed files.
The problem you are running into is that "git status" has a specific
purpose: generating the commit message template. Fortunately, it is
built on top of plumbing that is much easier to parse:
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard
should produce the results you want. It even has a '-z' option to do
things safely in the face of filenames with newlines, and can limit
itself to partial paths.
-Peff
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