CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Nathan
Nathan

Reputation: 7855

Is there a way to copy unstaged files in git to a different location?

I want to "pluck" (if that's a good word for it) just the unstaged files and copy them to a different directory. I don't want any other files in the repo... just these unstaged files.

Is there a git command or shell + git command to do this?

Updating question to respond to questions:

Upvotes: 3

Views: 876

Answers (3)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60443

git ls-files -m | tar Tc - | tar Cx /path/to/other/dir

and if windows wasn't a factor I'd do the tarpipe thing with just cpio -pd /path/to/other.

Upvotes: 9

ElpieKay
ElpieKay

Reputation: 30888

prefix=/xxx/
git status --porcelain | grep -e "^ M " | while read mark path
do
mkdir -p $prefix/$(dirname "$path")
cp -v "$path" $prefix/"$path"
done

prefix is the root folder of the backups.

Upvotes: 0

fedorqui
fedorqui

Reputation: 290075

If you use -s for --short you can get the list of files in a nice (porcelain) way:

$ git status -s
 M dir1/file1.py
 M dir2/file2.py

So then it is just a matter of looping through this list using process substitution:

while IFS=" " read -r _ file; do
   echo "$file --"  # or whatever "mv" you want to do
done < <(git status -s)

This slurps the first column using the throw away variable _ and the rest is stored in $file.

Upvotes: -1

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