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skyking
skyking

Reputation: 14360

How to find a complete list of untracked (and non-ignored) files within a git repository?

Under a specific <directory> (within a git repository),
I want a complete list of files that are:

Is there an easy way to do this?

Note that while git status does list untracked files that are not ignored,
it fails to list the actual files within any untracked sub-directories within the git repository.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1383

Answers (1)

skyking
skyking

Reputation: 14360

Yes, by using git ls-files.

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard [directory]
  • -o shows other (i.e. untracked) files in the output
  • --exclude-standard adds the standard Git exclusions
    from .gitignore in each directory, .git/info/exclude and ~/.gitignore_global.

Here is a sample git repository with 2 new untracked local files. Both of which are in a newly added untracked directory. One of the untracked files matches a pattern *.o specified in the .gitignore.

~/linux-stable$ ls -lR kernel/untracked-dir/
kernel/untracked-dir/:
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cvs cvs 7 Sep  2 18:46 untracked-ignored-file.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cvs cvs 7 Sep  2 18:46 untracked-non-ignored-file.c

Running git statussimply lists the new untracked sub-directory and not the individual files within

~/linux-stable$ git status kernel/
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

kernel/untracked-dir/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Whereas using git ls-files -o --exclude-standard, we get : 

~/linux-stable$ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard 
kernel/untracked-dir/untracked-non-ignored-file.c

i.e. the actual list of untracked-files (including the ones within any untracked directories).

Upvotes: 4

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