Christoph Duelli schrieb: > 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 For simplicity, I'll assume with "known to git" you mean whether the current branch's tip has some content at the given path. Then you could write: if git rev-parse HEAD:"$p" >/dev/null 2>&1 then # git knows about $p else # git does not know about $p fi -- Hannes -- 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