"Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Probably because git-status is porcelain, and is meant to be used by end user, not in scripts. > 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. > > I'm willing to implement it, but I'd like to have some discussion > about the interface first. Is that a good idea at all, and how could > it be improved interface-wise? To list all untracked files you can use plumbing command, namely "git ls-files --others" (Show other files in the output), or perhaps "git ls-files -o --directory --no-empty-directory --exclude-standard" If you want to use git command in script, it is better to find appropriate plumbing command to do what you want, for example git-ls-files instead of git-status to list untracked files, git-symbolic-ref instead of git-branch to get current branch name, etc. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
