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>]
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-cache 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:
82 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
83 which case it outputs:
85 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
87 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
88 detailed information on unmerged paths.
90 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
91 the dircache records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
92 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
93 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
94 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
100 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
101 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
102 flags --others or --ignored are specified.
104 These exclude patterns come from these places:
106 (1) command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single
109 (2) command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a list of
110 patterns stored in a file.
112 (3) command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
113 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
114 examines, and if exists, its contents are used as an
115 additional list of patterns.
117 An exclude pattern file used by (2) and (3) contains one pattern
118 per line. A line that starts with a '#' can be used as comment
121 There are three lists of patterns that are in effect at a given
122 time. They are built and ordered in the following way:
124 * --exclude=<pattern> from the command line; patterns are
125 ordered in the same order as they appear on the command line.
127 * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered
128 in the same order as they appear in the file.
130 * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon
131 entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are
132 appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They
133 are popped off when leaving the directory.
135 Each pattern in the pattern list specifies "a match pattern" and
136 optionally the fate; either a file that matches the pattern is
137 considered excluded or included. A filename is matched against
138 the patterns in the three lists; the --exclude-from list is
139 checked first, then the --exclude-per-directory list, and then
140 finally the --exclude list. The last match determines its fate.
141 If there is no match in the three lists, the fate is "included".
143 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
144 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
145 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
146 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
147 pattern file appears in.
149 An exclude pattern is of the following format:
151 - an optional prefix '!' which means that the fate this pattern
152 specifies is "include", not the usual "exclude"; the
153 remainder of the pattern string is interpreted according to
156 - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
157 pattern and used to match against the filename without
158 leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
161 - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
162 consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
163 slash in the pattern must match a slash in the pathname.
164 "Documentation/*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but
165 not "ppc/ppc.html". As a natural exception, "/*.c" matches
166 "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
171 # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
173 $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
174 # ignore generated html files,
176 # except foo.html which is maintained by hand
178 $ git-ls-files --ignored \
179 --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
180 --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
181 --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
186 gitlink:git-read-tree[1]
191 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
195 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
199 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite