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
35 Show cached files in the output (default)
39 Show deleted files in the output
43 Show modified files in the output
47 Show other files in the output
51 Show ignored files in the output.
52 Note that this also reverses any exclude list present.
56 Show staged contents' object name, mode bits and stage number in the output.
59 If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its
60 name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.
62 --no-empty-directory::
63 Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.
67 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
71 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
72 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
76 \0 line termination on output.
80 Skips files matching pattern.
81 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
84 --exclude-from=<file>::
85 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
87 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
88 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
89 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
92 Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore
93 in each directory, and the user's global exclusion file.
96 If any <file> does not appear in the index, treat this as an
99 --with-tree=<tree-ish>::
100 When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied
101 <file> (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend
102 that paths which were removed in the index since the
103 named <tree-ish> are still present. Using this option
104 with `-s` or `-u` options does not make any sense.
107 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
108 a space) at the start of each line:
117 Similar to `-t`, but use lowercase letters for files
118 that are marked as 'assume unchanged' (see
119 linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
122 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
123 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
124 option forces paths to be output relative to the project
128 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
129 lines, show only a partial prefix.
130 Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
133 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
136 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
137 specified criteria are shown.
141 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
142 which case it outputs:
144 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
146 'git-ls-files --unmerged' and 'git-ls-files --stage' can be used to examine
147 detailed information on unmerged paths.
149 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
150 the index records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
151 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
152 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
153 path. (see linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information on state)
155 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
156 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
163 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
164 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
165 flags --others or --ignored are specified. linkgit:gitignore[5]
166 specifies the format of exclude patterns.
168 These exclude patterns come from these places, in order:
170 1. The command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a
171 single pattern. Patterns are ordered in the same order
172 they appear in the command line.
174 2. The command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a
175 file containing a list of patterns. Patterns are ordered
176 in the same order they appear in the file.
178 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
179 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
180 examines, normally `.gitignore`. Files in deeper
181 directories take precedence. Patterns are ordered in the
182 same order they appear in the files.
184 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
185 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
186 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
187 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
188 pattern file appears in.
192 linkgit:git-read-tree[1], linkgit:gitignore[5]
197 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
201 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
205 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite