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From: "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Subject: Suggestion: git status --untracked
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:46:25 +0100
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I find myself wanting sometimes to filter out the output of
git-status, to feed it to another command (for example, git-add, or
rm, or cat >> .gitignore). However it's not currently very easy to
parse in a one-liner.

I'm suggesting to add options to control this behaviour. My suggestion
would be (for a start) to add an option --untracked that will list all
untracked files on stdout, without a leading "#\t", and without
listing the added / modified / removed files.

I'm willing to implement it, but I'd like to have some discussion
about the interface first. Is that a good idea at all, and how could
it be improved interface-wise?