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]
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