git-status - Show the working tree status
git status [<options>...] [--] [<pathspec>...]
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NAME
git-status - Show the working tree status
SYNOPSIS
git status [<options>...] [--] [<pathspec>...]
DESCRIPTION
Displays paths that have differences between the index file and the
current HEAD commit, paths that have differences between the working
tree and the index file, and paths in the working tree that are not
tracked by Git (and are not ignored by gitignore(4)). The first are
what you would commit by running git commit; the second and third are
what you could commit by running git add before running git commit.
OPTIONS
-s, --short
Give the output in the short-format.
-b, --branch
Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
--porcelain
Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts. This is
similar to the short output, but will remain stable across Git
versions and regardless of user configuration. See below for
details.
--long
Give the output in the long-format. This is the default.
-v, --verbose
In addition to the names of files that have been changed, also show
the textual changes that are staged to be committed (i.e., like the
output of git diff --cached). If -v is specified twice, then also
show the changes in the working tree that have not yet been staged
(i.e., like the output of git diff).
-u[<mode>], --untracked-files[=<mode>]
Show untracked files.
The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of untracked
files. It is optional: it defaults to all, and if specified, it
must be stuck to the option (e.g. -uno, but not -u no).
The possible options are:
o no - Show no untracked files.
o normal - Shows untracked files and directories.
o all - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.
When -u option is not used, untracked files and directories are
shown (i.e. the same as specifying normal), to help you avoid
forgetting to add newly created files. Because it takes extra
work to find untracked files in the filesystem, this mode may
take some time in a large working tree. Consider enabling
untracked cache and split index if supported (see git
update-index --untracked-cache and git update-index
--split-index), Otherwise you can use no to have git status
return more quickly without showing untracked files.
The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles
configuration variable documented in git-config(1).
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]
Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can
be either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the
default. Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it
either contains untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs
from the commit recorded in the superproject and can be used to
override any settings of the ignore option in git-config(1) or
gitmodules(4). When "untracked" is used submodules are not
considered dirty when they only contain untracked content (but they
are still scanned for modified content). Using "dirty" ignores all
changes to the work tree of submodules, only changes to the commits
stored in the superproject are shown (this was the behavior before
1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules (and suppresses
the output of submodule summaries when the config option
status.submoduleSummary is set).
--ignored
Show ignored files as well.
-z
Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF. This implies the
--porcelain output format if no other format is given.
--column[=<options>], --no-column
Display untracked files in columns. See configuration variable
column.status for option syntax.--column and --no-column without
options are equivalent to always and never respectively.
OUTPUT
The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit
template comment. The default, long format, is designed to be human
readable, verbose and descriptive. Its contents and format are subject
to change at any time.
The paths mentioned in the output, unlike many other Git commands, are
made relative to the current directory if you are working in a
subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). See the
status.relativePaths config option below.
Short Format
In the short-format, the status of each path is shown as
XY PATH1 -> PATH2
where PATH1 is the path in the HEAD, and the " -> PATH2" part is shown
only when PATH1 corresponds to a different path in the index/worktree
(i.e. the file is renamed). The XY is a two-letter status code.
The fields (including the ->) are separated from each other by a single
space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable
characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string
literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with
interior special characters backslash-escaped.
For paths with merge conflicts, X and Y show the modification states of
each side of the merge. For paths that do not have merge conflicts, X
shows the status of the index, and Y shows the status of the work tree.
For untracked paths, XY are ??. Other status codes can be interpreted
as follows:
o ' ' = unmodified
o M = modified
o A = added
o D = deleted
o R = renamed
o C = copied
o U = updated but unmerged
Ignored files are not listed, unless --ignored option is in effect, in
which case XY are !!.
X Y Meaning
-------------------------------------------------
[MD] not updated
M [ MD] updated in index
A [ MD] added to index
D [ M] deleted from index
R [ MD] renamed in index
C [ MD] copied in index
[MARC] index and work tree matches
[ MARC] M work tree changed since index
[ MARC] D deleted in work tree
-------------------------------------------------
D D unmerged, both deleted
A U unmerged, added by us
U D unmerged, deleted by them
U A unmerged, added by them
D U unmerged, deleted by us
A A unmerged, both added
U U unmerged, both modified
-------------------------------------------------
? ? untracked
! ! ignored
-------------------------------------------------
If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line
## branchname tracking info
Porcelain Format
The porcelain format is similar to the short format, but is guaranteed
not to change in a backwards-incompatible way between Git versions or
based on user configuration. This makes it ideal for parsing by
scripts. The description of the short format above also describes the
porcelain format, with a few exceptions:
1. The user's color.status configuration is not respected; color will
always be off.
2. The user's status.relativePaths configuration is not respected;
paths shown will always be relative to the repository root.
There is also an alternate -z format recommended for machine parsing.
In that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
change. First, the -> is omitted from rename entries and the field
order is reversed (e.g from -> to becomes to from). Second, a NUL
(ASCII 0) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special
characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
backslash-escaping is performed.
CONFIGURATION
The command honors color.status (or status.color -- they mean the same
thing and the latter is kept for backward compatibility) and
color.status.<slot> configuration variables to colorize its output.
If the config variable status.relativePaths is set to false, then all
paths shown are relative to the repository root, not to the current
directory.
If status.submoduleSummary is set to a non zero number or true
(identical to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be
enabled for the long format and a summary of commits for modified
submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of git-
submodule(1)). Please note that the summary output from the status
command will be suppressed for all submodules when
diff.ignoreSubmodules is set to all or only for those submodules where
submodule.<name>.ignore=all. To also view the summary for ignored
submodules you can either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command
line option or the git submodule summary command, which shows a similar
output but does not honor these settings.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gitignore(4)
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.7.4.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://git-scm.com/.
Git 2.7.4 03/17/2016 GIT-STATUS(1)