How to make git status show only staged files
Use git diff –name-only (with –cached to get the staged files)
git-status
Why does ‘git commit’ not save my changes?
As the message says: no changes added to commit (use “git add” and/or “git commit -a”) Git has a “staging area” where files need to be added before being committed, you can read an explanation of it here. For your specific example, you can use: git commit -am “save arezzo files” (note the extra a … Read more
Trying to understand `git diff` and `git mv` rename detection mechanism
Git’s “similarity index” computation is not, as far as I know, documented anywhere other than in the source, starting with diffcore-delta.c. To compute the similarity index for two files S (source) and D (destination), Git: reads both files computes a hash table of all of the chunks of file S computes a second hash table … Read more
Git: list only “untracked” files (also, custom commands)
To list untracked files try: git ls-files –others –exclude-standard If you need to pipe the output to xargs, it is wise to mind white spaces using git ls-files -z and xargs -0: git ls-files -z -o –exclude-standard | xargs -0 git add Nice alias for adding untracked files: au = !git add $(git ls-files -o … Read more
git status shows modifications, git checkout — doesn’t remove them
I was having this problem on Windows but wasn’t prepared to look into the ramifications of using config –global core.autocrlf false I also wasn’t prepared to abandon other private branches and goodies in my stash and start with a fresh clone. I just need to get something done. Now. This worked for me, on the … Read more