6 git-ls-files - Information about files in the cache/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>] [--] [<file>]\*
20 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
21 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
24 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
30 Show cached files in the output (default)
33 Show deleted files in the output
36 Show modified files in the output
39 Show other files in the output
42 Show ignored files in the output
43 Note the this also reverses any exclude list present.
46 Show stage files in the output
49 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
52 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
53 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
57 \0 line termination on output
59 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
60 Skips files matching pattern.
61 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
63 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
64 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
66 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
67 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
68 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
71 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
72 a space) at the start of each line:
81 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
84 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
85 specified criteria are shown.
89 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
90 which case it outputs:
92 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
94 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
95 detailed information on unmerged paths.
97 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
98 the dircache records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
99 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
100 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
101 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
107 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
108 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
109 flags --others or --ignored are specified.
111 These exclude patterns come from these places:
113 1. command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single
116 2. command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a list of
117 patterns stored in a file.
119 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
120 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
121 examines, and if exists, its contents are used as an
122 additional list of patterns.
124 An exclude pattern file used by (2) and (3) contains one pattern
125 per line. A line that starts with a '#' can be used as comment
128 There are three lists of patterns that are in effect at a given
129 time. They are built and ordered in the following way:
131 * --exclude=<pattern> from the command line; patterns are
132 ordered in the same order as they appear on the command line.
134 * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered
135 in the same order as they appear in the file.
137 * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon
138 entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are
139 appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They
140 are popped off when leaving the directory.
142 Each pattern in the pattern list specifies "a match pattern" and
143 optionally the fate; either a file that matches the pattern is
144 considered excluded or included. A filename is matched against
145 the patterns in the three lists; the --exclude-from list is
146 checked first, then the --exclude-per-directory list, and then
147 finally the --exclude list. The last match determines its fate.
148 If there is no match in the three lists, the fate is "included".
150 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
151 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
152 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
153 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
154 pattern file appears in.
156 An exclude pattern is of the following format:
158 - an optional prefix '!' which means that the fate this pattern
159 specifies is "include", not the usual "exclude"; the
160 remainder of the pattern string is interpreted according to
163 - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
164 pattern and used to match against the filename without
165 leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
168 - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
169 consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
170 slash in the pattern must match a slash in the pathname.
171 "Documentation/\*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but
172 not "ppc/ppc.html". As a natural exception, "/*.c" matches
173 "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
177 --------------------------------------------------------------
179 # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
181 $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
182 # ignore generated html files,
184 # except foo.html which is maintained by hand
186 $ git-ls-files --ignored \
187 --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
188 --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
189 --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
190 --------------------------------------------------------------
195 gitlink:git-read-tree[1]
200 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
204 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
208 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite