6 git-ls-files - Information about files in the index/working directory
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 [--full-name] [--] [<file>]\*
23 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
24 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
27 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
33 Show cached files in the output (default)
36 Show deleted files in the output
39 Show modified files in the output
42 Show other files in the output
45 Show ignored files in the output
46 Note the this also reverses any exclude list present.
49 Show stage files in the output
52 If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
53 name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
56 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
59 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
60 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
64 \0 line termination on output.
66 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
67 Skips files matching pattern.
68 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
70 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
71 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
73 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
74 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
75 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
78 If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
82 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
83 a space) at the start of each line:
92 Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
93 that are marked as 'always matching index'.
96 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
97 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
98 option forces paths to be output relative to the project
102 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
105 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
106 specified criteria are shown.
110 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
111 which case it outputs:
113 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
115 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
116 detailed information on unmerged paths.
118 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
119 the dircache records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
120 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
121 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
122 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
124 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
125 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
132 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
133 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
134 flags --others or --ignored are specified.
136 These exclude patterns come from these places:
138 1. command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single
141 2. command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a list of
142 patterns stored in a file.
144 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
145 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
146 examines, and if exists, its contents are used as an
147 additional list of patterns.
149 An exclude pattern file used by (2) and (3) contains one pattern
150 per line. A line that starts with a '#' can be used as comment
153 There are three lists of patterns that are in effect at a given
154 time. They are built and ordered in the following way:
156 * --exclude=<pattern> from the command line; patterns are
157 ordered in the same order as they appear on the command line.
159 * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered
160 in the same order as they appear in the file.
162 * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon
163 entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are
164 appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They
165 are popped off when leaving the directory.
167 Each pattern in the pattern list specifies "a match pattern" and
168 optionally the fate; either a file that matches the pattern is
169 considered excluded or included. A filename is matched against
170 the patterns in the three lists; the --exclude-from list is
171 checked first, then the --exclude-per-directory list, and then
172 finally the --exclude list. The last match determines its fate.
173 If there is no match in the three lists, the fate is "included".
175 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
176 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
177 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
178 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
179 pattern file appears in.
181 An exclude pattern is of the following format:
183 - an optional prefix '!' which means that the fate this pattern
184 specifies is "include", not the usual "exclude"; the
185 remainder of the pattern string is interpreted according to
188 - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
189 pattern and used to match against the filename without
190 leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
193 - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
194 consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
195 slash in the pattern must match a slash in the pathname.
196 "Documentation/\*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but
197 not "ppc/ppc.html". As a natural exception, "/*.c" matches
198 "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
202 --------------------------------------------------------------
204 # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
206 $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
207 # ignore generated html files,
209 # except foo.html which is maintained by hand
211 $ git-ls-files --ignored \
212 --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
213 --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
214 --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
215 --------------------------------------------------------------
220 gitlink:git-read-tree[1]
225 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
229 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
233 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite