Documentation/git-ls-files.txt

   1 git-ls-files(1)
   2 ===============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-ls-files - Show information about files in the index and the working tree
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git-ls-files' [-z] [-t] [-v]
  13                 (--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])\*
  14                 (-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])\*
  15                 [-x <pattern>|--exclude=<pattern>]
  16                 [-X <file>|--exclude-from=<file>]
  17                 [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
  18                 [--exclude-standard]
  19                 [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
  20                 [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>]\*
  21
  22 DESCRIPTION
  23 -----------
  24 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
  25 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
  26 two.
  27
  28 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
  29 shown:
  30
  31 OPTIONS
  32 -------
  33 -c|--cached::
  34         Show cached files in the output (default)
  35
  36 -d|--deleted::
  37         Show deleted files in the output
  38
  39 -m|--modified::
  40         Show modified files in the output
  41
  42 -o|--others::
  43         Show other files in the output
  44
  45 -i|--ignored::
  46         Show ignored files in the output.
  47         Note that this also reverses any exclude list present.
  48
  49 -s|--stage::
  50         Show stage files in the output
  51
  52 --directory::
  53         If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
  54         name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
  55
  56 --no-empty-directory::
  57         Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.
  58
  59 -u|--unmerged::
  60         Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
  61
  62 -k|--killed::
  63         Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
  64         to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
  65         succeed.
  66
  67 -z::
  68         \0 line termination on output.
  69
  70 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
  71         Skips files matching pattern.
  72         Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
  73
  74 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
  75         exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
  76
  77 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
  78         read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
  79         directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
  80
  81 --exclude-standard::
  82         Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
  83         in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
  84
  85 --error-unmatch::
  86         If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
  87         error (return 1).
  88
  89 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
  90         When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
  91         <file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
  92         that paths which were removed in the index since the
  93         named <tree-ish> are still present.  Using this option
  94         with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
  95
  96 -t::
  97         Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
  98         a space) at the start of each line:
  99         H::     cached
 100         M::     unmerged
 101         R::     removed/deleted
 102         C::     modified/changed
 103         K::     to be killed
 104         ?::     other
 105
 106 -v::
 107         Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
 108         that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see
 109         linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
 110
 111 --full-name::
 112         When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
 113         outputs paths relative to the current directory.  This
 114         option forces paths to be output relative to the project
 115         top directory.
 116
 117 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 118         Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
 119         lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
 120         Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 121
 122 \--::
 123         Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 124
 125 <file>::
 126         Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
 127         specified criteria are shown.
 128
 129 Output
 130 ------
 131 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
 132 which case it outputs:
 133
 134         [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
 135
 136 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
 137 detailed information on unmerged paths.
 138
 139 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
 140 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
 141 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3.  This information can be used by
 142 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
 143 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
 144
 145 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 146 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
 147 respectively.
 148
 149
 150 Exclude Patterns
 151 ----------------
 152
 153 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
 154 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
 155 flags --others or --ignored are specified.  linkgit:gitignore[5]
 156 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
 157
 158 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
 159
 160   1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
 161      single pattern.  Patterns are ordered in the same order
 162      they appear in the command line.
 163
 164   2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
 165      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
 166      in the same order they appear in the file.
 167
 168   3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
 169      a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
 170      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
 171      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the
 172      same order they appear in the files.
 173
 174 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
 175 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
 176 top of the directory tree.  A pattern read from a file specified
 177 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
 178 pattern file appears in.
 179
 180 SEE ALSO
 181 --------
 182 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
 183
 184
 185 Author
 186 ------
 187 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 188
 189 Documentation
 190 --------------
 191 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 192
 193 GIT
 194 ---
 195 Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite