I just did $ git checkout -b mdl19-offlinetony A README.offline M lib/javascript.php (...) A lib/offline/offlinemoodle.user.js I *like* this "brief status" style - takes me back to my cvs days :-). Perusing the source I found show_local_changes() which in turn led me to trying `git diff --name-status HEAD`. Now, including 'HEAD' in an alias defined in git config is going to lead to trouble... :-/ I might still make an alias to `git diff --name-status`. This would be a great thing to have as git status "--brief" IMHO... :-) cheers, m -- martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- 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