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 (i.e. untracked) files in the output
  48
  49 -i::
  50 --ignored::
  51         Show only ignored files in the output. When showing files in the
  52         index, print only those matched by an exclude pattern. When
  53         showing "other" files, show only those matched by an exclude
  54         pattern.
  55
  56 -s::
  57 --stage::
  58         Show staged contents' object name, mode bits and stage number in the output.
  59
  60 --directory::
  61         If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
  62         name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
  63
  64 --no-empty-directory::
  65         Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.
  66
  67 -u::
  68 --unmerged::
  69         Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
  70
  71 -k::
  72 --killed::
  73         Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
  74         to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
  75         succeed.
  76
  77 -z::
  78         \0 line termination on output.
  79
  80 -x <pattern>::
  81 --exclude=<pattern>::
  82         Skips files matching pattern.
  83         Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
  84
  85 -X <file>::
  86 --exclude-from=<file>::
  87         exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
  88
  89 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
  90         read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
  91         directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
  92
  93 --exclude-standard::
  94         Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
  95         in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
  96
  97 --error-unmatch::
  98         If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
  99         error (return 1).
 100
 101 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
 102         When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
 103         <file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
 104         that paths which were removed in the index since the
 105         named <tree-ish> are still present.  Using this option
 106         with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
 107
 108 -t::
 109         This feature is semi-deprecated. For scripting purpose,
 110         linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` and
 111         linkgit:git-diff-files[1] `--name-status` are almost always
 112         superior alternatives, and users should look at
 113         linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1]
 114         `--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives.
 115 +
 116 This option identifies the file status with the following tags (followed by
 117 a space) at the start of each line:
 118
 119         H::     cached
 120         S::     skip-worktree
 121         M::     unmerged
 122         R::     removed/deleted
 123         C::     modified/changed
 124         K::     to be killed
 125         ?::     other
 126
 127 -v::
 128         Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
 129         that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see
 130         linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
 131
 132 --full-name::
 133         When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
 134         outputs paths relative to the current directory.  This
 135         option forces paths to be output relative to the project
 136         top directory.
 137
 138 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 139         Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
 140         lines, show only a partial prefix.
 141         Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 142
 143 --debug::
 144         After each line that describes a file, add more data about its
 145         cache entry.  This is intended to show as much information as
 146         possible for manual inspection; the exact format may change at
 147         any time.
 148
 149 \--::
 150         Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 151
 152 <file>::
 153         Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
 154         specified criteria are shown.
 155
 156 Output
 157 ------
 158 'git ls-files' just outputs the filenames unless '--stage' is specified in
 159 which case it outputs:
 160
 161         [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
 162
 163 'git ls-files --unmerged' and 'git ls-files --stage' can be used to examine
 164 detailed information on unmerged paths.
 165
 166 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
 167 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
 168 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3.  This information can be used by
 169 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
 170 path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state)
 171
 172 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 173 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
 174 respectively.
 175
 176
 177 Exclude Patterns
 178 ----------------
 179
 180 'git ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
 181 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
 182 flags --others or --ignored are specified.  linkgit:gitignore[5]
 183 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
 184
 185 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
 186
 187   1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
 188      single pattern.  Patterns are ordered in the same order
 189      they appear in the command line.
 190
 191   2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
 192      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
 193      in the same order they appear in the file.
 194
 195   3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
 196      a name of the file in each directory 'git ls-files'
 197      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
 198      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the
 199      same order they appear in the files.
 200
 201 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
 202 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
 203 top of the directory tree.  A pattern read from a file specified
 204 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
 205 pattern file appears in.
 206
 207 SEE ALSO
 208 --------
 209 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
 210
 211
 212 Author
 213 ------
 214 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 215
 216 Documentation
 217 --------------
 218 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 219
 220 GIT
 221 ---
 222 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite