Re: git pull suggestion

[Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> It is possible to manually get the answer you want, or close to it. You
> are looking for the intersection of files modified by you and files
> modified by the upstream. So:
>
>  # unique list of modified working tree files and index entries
>  $ (git diff-files --name-only;
>     git diff-index --name-only HEAD
>    ) | sort -u >us
>  # files that will be changing as part of merge
>  $ git diff-tree --name-only $HEAD_TO_MERGE_FROM | sort >them
>  $ comm -12 us them
>
> where $HEAD_TO_MERGE_FROM in my example would be "other", but in the
> case of a pull, would probably be FETCH_HEAD.

It works. You actually need the -r flag to 'git diff-tree' (recursive) in order
to list the actual files and not only their parent directories. So it becomes:

$ (git diff-files --name-only; git diff-index --name-only HEAD ) | sort -u>us
$ git diff-tree -r --name-only $HEAD_TO_MERGE_FROM | sort > them
$ comm -12 us them

Thank you very much,

  -- aghiles