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Asif Kamran Malick
Asif Kamran Malick

Reputation: 3181

Rest API for getting "git status" command output

Does git provide a REST API for fetching the output of the gits status command. I looked up the https://developer.github.com/v3/ but couldn't find what I am looking for. I want to get all the text output that gets displayed when we type in the git status command in the command prompt/git bash terminal and then be able to display that output on a webpage /application window.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 603

Answers (1)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94445

Server repositories are bare, they don't have the working directory. And in a bare repository (even local) git status is meaningless (because it compares the repository with the working tree) and produces error:

fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

Hence there is no API for getting status.

Upvotes: 2

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