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Subject: Re: Is a given file known to git?
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Christoph Duelli schrieb:
> Given a repository and a path p to a file in it:
> Is it possible (how?) to detect (in a bash script) if the file pointed
> to by p is "known" to git?
> Something along the line:
> if `git knows p?
> then
> ...
> fi

For simplicity, I'll assume with "known to git" you mean whether the
current branch's tip has some content at the given path. Then you could write:

	if git rev-parse HEAD:"$p" >/dev/null 2>&1
	then
		# git knows about $p
	else
		# git does not know about $p
	fi

-- Hannes