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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Teach git status to do "git diff --name-status HEAD"
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:42:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D0C2DF.7010308@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aba84270809162340n4ea3f5feqc71d01fa6e035b79@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 17.09.2008 08:40:
> I just did
> 
> $ git checkout -b mdl19-offlinetony
> A       README.offline
> M       lib/javascript.php
>     (...)
> A       lib/offline/offlinemoodle.user.js
> 
> I *like* this "brief status" style - takes me back to my cvs days :-).
> Perusing the source I found show_local_changes() which in turn led me
> to trying `git diff --name-status HEAD`. Now, including 'HEAD' in an
> alias defined in git config is going to lead to trouble... :-/

Nice!
HEAD is default, no need to stick your HEAD into the config ;)

> I might still make an alias to `git diff --name-status`. This would be
> a great thing to have as git status "--brief" IMHO... :-)

git status also shows untracked files. I don't know how to tell diff to
show untracked files as well. --diff-filter=X doesn't do it.

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-17  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17  6:40 Teach git status to do "git diff --name-status HEAD" Martin Langhoff
2008-09-17  8:42 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2008-09-17 11:04   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-17 11:26     ` Michael J Gruber
2008-09-17 15:16     ` Mismatch between "git status" and "git ls-files" [was Re: Teach git status to do "git diff --name-status HEAD"] Michael J Gruber
2008-09-17 17:31       ` Jeff King

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