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yetanotherposter
yetanotherposter

Reputation: 89

Git command to get all folders with changes

I am trying to figure out what is the git command to get all the folders with changes in them.

git diff --name-only

But this gives all the actual files that changed?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 321

Answers (1)

Moocowmoo
Moocowmoo

Reputation: 3769

To get the paths containing changes, pipe the output through xargs to dirname 

git diff --name-only | xargs dirname | uniq

This will strip all the filenames from the relative paths and remove any duplicates.

For example:

$ git diff --name-only
app/lib/sub/dirlist.cpp
app/net/rpc.cpp
config/config.txt

after dirname will return

$ git diff --name-only | xargs dirname | uniq
app/lib/sub
app/net
config

xargs takes multiple lines (list outputs) and runs the following command (dirname in this example) on each in turn. uniq will remove duplicates from the output.

Upvotes: 4

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