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         Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
 110         a space) at the start of each line:
 111         H::     cached
 112         M::     unmerged
 113         R::     removed/deleted
 114         C::     modified/changed
 115         K::     to be killed
 116         ?::     other
 117
 118 -v::
 119         Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
 120         that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see
 121         linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
 122
 123 --full-name::
 124         When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
 125         outputs paths relative to the current directory.  This
 126         option forces paths to be output relative to the project
 127         top directory.
 128
 129 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 130         Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
 131         lines, show only a partial prefix.
 132         Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 133
 134 \--::
 135         Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 136
 137 <file>::
 138         Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
 139         specified criteria are shown.
 140
 141 Output
 142 ------
 143 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
 144 which case it outputs:
 145
 146         [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
 147
 148 'git-ls-files --unmerged' and 'git-ls-files --stage' can be used to examine
 149 detailed information on unmerged paths.
 150
 151 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
 152 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
 153 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3.  This information can be used by
 154 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
 155 path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state)
 156
 157 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 158 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
 159 respectively.
 160
 161
 162 Exclude Patterns
 163 ----------------
 164
 165 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
 166 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
 167 flags --others or --ignored are specified.  linkgit:gitignore[5]
 168 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
 169
 170 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
 171
 172   1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
 173      single pattern.  Patterns are ordered in the same order
 174      they appear in the command line.
 175
 176   2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
 177      file containing a list of patterns.  Patterns are ordered
 178      in the same order they appear in the file.
 179
 180   3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
 181      a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
 182      examines, normally `.gitignore`.  Files in deeper
 183      directories take precedence.  Patterns are ordered in the
 184      same order they appear in the files.
 185
 186 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
 187 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
 188 top of the directory tree.  A pattern read from a file specified
 189 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
 190 pattern file appears in.
 191
 192 SEE ALSO
 193 --------
 194 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
 195
 196
 197 Author
 198 ------
 199 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 200
 201 Documentation
 202 --------------
 203 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 204
 205 GIT
 206 ---
 207 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite