Christoph Duelli <duelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Given a repository and a path p to a file in it: > Is it possible (how?) to detect (in a bash script) if the file pointed > to by p is "known" to git? > Something along the line: > if `git knows p? > then > ... > fi Depends on your definition of "known to git". You can look at the current index, which may have files newly added but not yet committed: if test $(git ls-files "$p" | wc -l) -gt 0 then ... fi you can look at a specific committed state too: if git cat-file -e "$commit:$p" 2>/dev/null then ... fi where $commit can be any tree-ish, so a tag, a branch, a commit, the symbolic-ref HEAD... etc. -- Shawn. -- 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
