6 git-ls-files - Show information about files in the index and the working tree
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>]
19 [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
20 [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>]\*
24 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
25 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
28 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
34 Show cached files in the output (default)
37 Show deleted files in the output
40 Show modified files in the output
43 Show other files in the output
46 Show ignored files in the output.
47 Note that this also reverses any exclude list present.
50 Show stage files in the output
53 If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
54 name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
56 --no-empty-directory::
57 Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.
60 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
63 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
64 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
68 \0 line termination on output.
70 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
71 Skips files matching pattern.
72 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
74 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
75 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
77 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
78 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
79 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
82 Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
83 in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
86 If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
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.
97 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
98 a space) at the start of each line:
107 Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
108 that are marked as 'always matching index'.
111 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
112 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
113 option forces paths to be output relative to the project
117 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
118 lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
119 Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
122 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
125 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
126 specified criteria are shown.
130 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
131 which case it outputs:
133 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
135 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
136 detailed information on unmerged paths.
138 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
139 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
140 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
141 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
142 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
144 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
145 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
152 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
153 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
154 flags --others or --ignored are specified. gitlink:gitignore[5]
155 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
157 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
159 1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
160 single pattern. Patterns are ordered in the same order
161 they appear in the command line.
163 2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
164 file containing a list of patterns. Patterns are ordered
165 in the same order they appear in the file.
167 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
168 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
169 examines, normally `.gitignore`. Files in deeper
170 directories take precedence. Patterns are ordered in the
171 same order they appear in the files.
173 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
174 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
175 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
176 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
177 pattern file appears in.
181 gitlink:git-read-tree[1], gitlink:gitignore[5]
186 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
190 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
194 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite