6 git-ls-files - Information about files in the index/working directory
11 'git-ls-files' [-z] [-t]
12 (--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])\*
13 (-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])\*
14 [-x <pattern>|--exclude=<pattern>]
15 [-X <file>|--exclude-from=<file>]
16 [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
17 [--full-name] [--] [<file>]\*
21 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
22 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
25 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
31 Show cached files in the output (default)
34 Show deleted files in the output
37 Show modified files in the output
40 Show other files in the output
43 Show ignored files in the output
44 Note the this also reverses any exclude list present.
47 Show stage files in the output
50 If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
51 name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
54 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
57 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
58 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
62 \0 line termination on output.
64 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
65 Skips files matching pattern.
66 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
68 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
69 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
71 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
72 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
73 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
76 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
77 a space) at the start of each line:
86 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
87 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
88 option forces paths to be output relative to the project
92 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
95 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
96 specified criteria are shown.
100 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
101 which case it outputs:
103 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
105 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
106 detailed information on unmerged paths.
108 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
109 the dircache records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
110 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
111 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
112 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
114 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
115 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
122 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
123 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
124 flags --others or --ignored are specified.
126 These exclude patterns come from these places:
128 1. command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single
131 2. command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a list of
132 patterns stored in a file.
134 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
135 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
136 examines, and if exists, its contents are used as an
137 additional list of patterns.
139 An exclude pattern file used by (2) and (3) contains one pattern
140 per line. A line that starts with a '#' can be used as comment
143 There are three lists of patterns that are in effect at a given
144 time. They are built and ordered in the following way:
146 * --exclude=<pattern> from the command line; patterns are
147 ordered in the same order as they appear on the command line.
149 * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered
150 in the same order as they appear in the file.
152 * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon
153 entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are
154 appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They
155 are popped off when leaving the directory.
157 Each pattern in the pattern list specifies "a match pattern" and
158 optionally the fate; either a file that matches the pattern is
159 considered excluded or included. A filename is matched against
160 the patterns in the three lists; the --exclude-from list is
161 checked first, then the --exclude-per-directory list, and then
162 finally the --exclude list. The last match determines its fate.
163 If there is no match in the three lists, the fate is "included".
165 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
166 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
167 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
168 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
169 pattern file appears in.
171 An exclude pattern is of the following format:
173 - an optional prefix '!' which means that the fate this pattern
174 specifies is "include", not the usual "exclude"; the
175 remainder of the pattern string is interpreted according to
178 - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
179 pattern and used to match against the filename without
180 leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
183 - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
184 consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
185 slash in the pattern must match a slash in the pathname.
186 "Documentation/\*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but
187 not "ppc/ppc.html". As a natural exception, "/*.c" matches
188 "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
192 --------------------------------------------------------------
194 # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
196 $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
197 # ignore generated html files,
199 # except foo.html which is maintained by hand
201 $ git-ls-files --ignored \
202 --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
203 --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
204 --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
205 --------------------------------------------------------------
210 gitlink:git-read-tree[1]
215 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
219 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
223 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite