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::
  34 --cached::
  35         Show cached files in the output (default)
  36
  37 -d::
  38 --deleted::
  39         Show deleted files in the output
  40
  41 -m::
  42 --modified::
  43         Show modified files in the output
  44
  45 -o::
  46 --others::
  47         Show other files in the output
  48
  49 -i::
  50 --ignored::
  51         Show ignored files in the output.
  52         Note that this also reverses any exclude list present.
  53
  54 -s::
  55 --stage::
  56         Show stage files in the output
  57
  58 --directory::
  59         If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
  60         name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
  61
  62 --no-empty-directory::
  63         Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.
  64
  65 -u::
  66 --unmerged::
  67         Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
  68
  69 -k::
  70 --killed::
  71         Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
  72         to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
  73         succeed.
  74
  75 -z::
  76         \0 line termination on output.
  77
  78 -x <pattern>::
  79 --exclude=<pattern>::
  80         Skips files matching pattern.
  81         Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
  82
  83 -X <file>::
  84 --exclude-from=<file>::
  85         exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
  86
  87 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
  88         read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
  89         directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
  90
  91 --exclude-standard::
  92         Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
  93         in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
  94
  95 --error-unmatch::
  96         If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
  97         error (return 1).
  98
  99 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
 100         When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
 101         <file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
 102         that paths which were removed in the index since the
 103         named <tree-ish> are still present.  Using this option
 104         with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
 105
 106 -t::
 107         Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
 108         a space) at the start of each line:
 109         H::     cached
 110         M::     unmerged
 111         R::     removed/deleted
 112         C::     modified/changed
 113         K::     to be killed
 114         ?::     other
 115
 116 -v::
 117         Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
 118         that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see
 119         linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
 120
 121 --full-name::
 122         When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
 123         outputs paths relative to the current directory.  This
 124         option forces paths to be output relative to the project
 125         top directory.
 126
 127 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 128         Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
 129         lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
 130         Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 131
 132 \--::
 133         Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 134
 135 <file>::
 136         Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
 137         specified criteria are shown.
 138
 139 Output
 140 ------
 141 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
 142 which case it outputs:
 143
 144         [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
 145
 146 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
 147 detailed information on unmerged paths.
 148
 149 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
 150 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
 151 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3.  This information can be used by
 152 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
 153 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
 154
 155 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 156 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
 157 respectively.
 158
 159
 160 Exclude Patterns
 161 ----------------
 162
 163 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
 164 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
 165 flags --others or --ignored are specified.  linkgit:gitignore[5]
 166 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
 167
 168 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
 169
 170   1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
 171      single pattern.  Patterns are ordered in the same order
 172      they appear in the command line.
 173
 174   2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
 175      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
 176      in the same order they appear in the file.
 177
 178   3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
 179      a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
 180      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
 181      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the
 182      same order they appear in the files.
 183
 184 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
 185 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
 186 top of the directory tree.  A pattern read from a file specified
 187 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
 188 pattern file appears in.
 189
 190 SEE ALSO
 191 --------
 192 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
 193
 194
 195 Author
 196 ------
 197 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 198
 199 Documentation
 200 --------------
 201 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 202
 203 GIT
 204 ---
 205 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite