From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Get a git diff without taking index into account
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:30:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150218223013.GA16287@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAoZyYOT_OQZ+rrwFvnsVBV_sYRA4Oti3vRNnE6_RaV9w8qxdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 04:38:55PM -0500, Eric Frederich wrote:
> Also, how would I go about detecting untracked files the way status does?
> There is no way to specify a HEAD per git command using switches or
> environment variables.
> I can't change the HEAD of the Git repo because other processes may be
> using it at the same time.
Untracked files are a function of the index, not of the HEAD. So you
would load whatever tree you like into your index (either "the" index,
or a temporary one you specify with GIT_INDEX_FILE), and then "git
ls-files -o".
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-18 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-18 14:57 Get a git diff without taking index into account Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 15:06 ` Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 15:42 ` Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 18:27 ` Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 18:32 ` Jeff King
2015-02-18 19:36 ` Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 21:38 ` Eric Frederich
2015-02-18 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 22:30 ` Jeff King [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20150218223013.GA16287@peff.net \
--to=peff@peff.net \
--cc=eric.frederich@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.