6 git-ls-files - Information about files in the index/working directory
11 'git-ls-files' [-z] [-t]
12 (--[cached|deleted|others|ignored|stage|unmerged|killed|modified])\*
13 (-[c|d|o|i|s|u|k|m])\*
14 [-x <pattern>|--exclude=<pattern>]
15 [-X <file>|--exclude-from=<file>]
16 [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
17 [--full-name] [--] [<file>]\*
21 This merges the file listing in the directory cache index with the
22 actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the
25 One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files
31 Show cached files in the output (default)
34 Show deleted files in the output
37 Show modified files in the output
40 Show other files in the output
43 Show ignored files in the output
44 Note the this also reverses any exclude list present.
47 Show stage files in the output
50 Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)
53 Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due
54 to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to
58 \0 line termination on output.
60 -x|--exclude=<pattern>::
61 Skips files matching pattern.
62 Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.
64 -X|--exclude-from=<file>::
65 exclude patterns are read from <file>; 1 per line.
67 --exclude-per-directory=<file>::
68 read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the
69 directory and its subdirectories in <file>.
72 Identify the file status with the following tags (followed by
73 a space) at the start of each line:
82 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
83 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
84 option forces paths to be output relative to the project
88 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
91 Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other
92 specified criteria are shown.
96 show files just outputs the filename unless '--stage' is specified in
97 which case it outputs:
99 [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>
101 "git-ls-files --unmerged" and "git-ls-files --stage" can be used to examine
102 detailed information on unmerged paths.
104 For an unmerged path, instead of recording a single mode/SHA1 pair,
105 the dircache records up to three such pairs; one from tree O in stage
106 1, A in stage 2, and B in stage 3. This information can be used by
107 the user (or the porcelain) to see what should eventually be recorded at the
108 path. (see git-read-tree for more information on state)
110 When `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
111 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`,
118 'git-ls-files' can use a list of "exclude patterns" when
119 traversing the directory tree and finding files to show when the
120 flags --others or --ignored are specified.
122 These exclude patterns come from these places:
124 1. command line flag --exclude=<pattern> specifies a single
127 2. command line flag --exclude-from=<file> specifies a list of
128 patterns stored in a file.
130 3. command line flag --exclude-per-directory=<name> specifies
131 a name of the file in each directory 'git-ls-files'
132 examines, and if exists, its contents are used as an
133 additional list of patterns.
135 An exclude pattern file used by (2) and (3) contains one pattern
136 per line. A line that starts with a '#' can be used as comment
139 There are three lists of patterns that are in effect at a given
140 time. They are built and ordered in the following way:
142 * --exclude=<pattern> from the command line; patterns are
143 ordered in the same order as they appear on the command line.
145 * lines read from --exclude-from=<file>; patterns are ordered
146 in the same order as they appear in the file.
148 * When --exclude-per-directory=<name> is specified, upon
149 entering a directory that has such a file, its contents are
150 appended at the end of the current "list of patterns". They
151 are popped off when leaving the directory.
153 Each pattern in the pattern list specifies "a match pattern" and
154 optionally the fate; either a file that matches the pattern is
155 considered excluded or included. A filename is matched against
156 the patterns in the three lists; the --exclude-from list is
157 checked first, then the --exclude-per-directory list, and then
158 finally the --exclude list. The last match determines its fate.
159 If there is no match in the three lists, the fate is "included".
161 A pattern specified on the command line with --exclude or read
162 from the file specified with --exclude-from is relative to the
163 top of the directory tree. A pattern read from a file specified
164 by --exclude-per-directory is relative to the directory that the
165 pattern file appears in.
167 An exclude pattern is of the following format:
169 - an optional prefix '!' which means that the fate this pattern
170 specifies is "include", not the usual "exclude"; the
171 remainder of the pattern string is interpreted according to
174 - if it does not contain a slash '/', it is a shell glob
175 pattern and used to match against the filename without
176 leading directories (i.e. the same way as the current
179 - otherwise, it is a shell glob pattern, suitable for
180 consumption by fnmatch(3) with FNM_PATHNAME flag. I.e. a
181 slash in the pattern must match a slash in the pathname.
182 "Documentation/\*.html" matches "Documentation/git.html" but
183 not "ppc/ppc.html". As a natural exception, "/*.c" matches
184 "cat-file.c" but not "mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
188 --------------------------------------------------------------
190 # ignore objects and archives, anywhere in the tree.
192 $ cat Documentation/.gitignore
193 # ignore generated html files,
195 # except foo.html which is maintained by hand
197 $ git-ls-files --ignored \
198 --exclude='Documentation/*.[0-9]' \
199 --exclude-from=.git/ignore \
200 --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
201 --------------------------------------------------------------
206 gitlink:git-read-tree[1]
211 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
215 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
219 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite