How do I list just the files that would be committed?
commit, file, git, status
Solution
This is what I was looking for. Thanks to notnoop for the lead I needed. I wanted to post back my solution in case it helps others.
git diff HEAD --name-only
Since I intended to do
git commit -s -F mesage.txt
with the files found in the first line.
My intent is to create a little system that totally ignores the index i.e. that I never need to do git add. (From what I understand, the index is useful when creating patches, which isn't by no means the norm in my workflow.)
Problem
Is there any way to get a list of files that will be committed when I type the following? ``` git commit -m "my changes" ``` git status lists too much. I could strip out all the words, but I'd rather not. And I don't want to be told about untracked files. I've tried ``` git ls-files -md ``` but that doesn't show files that have been recently added, but not yet committed. I'm looking for the same output you'd get from ``` svn status -q ``` For example $ svn status -q A file.py M dir/database.py M start.py