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| author | Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> | 2010-04-23 13:40:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-04-23 12:33:41 -0700 |
| commit | e92e9cd3c388544f4f521736df844b37908c3879 (patch) | |
| tree | 5991d3e2e385a8e4042aaf817c7a10262b5f0660 | |
| parent | 66cfd1026ffadc9dd7053823196af7578aa112bf (diff) | |
| download | git-e92e9cd3c388544f4f521736df844b37908c3879.tar.gz git-e92e9cd3c388544f4f521736df844b37908c3879.tar.xz | |
Documentation improvements for the description of short format.
Incorporates the detailed explanation from Jeff King in
<20100410040959.GA11977@coredump.intra.peff.net> and fixes
the bug noted by Junio C Hamano in
<7vmxxc1i8g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>.
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 43 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 1cab91b53..2d4bbfcaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -72,21 +72,37 @@ In short-format, the status of each path is shown as where `PATH1` is the path in the `HEAD`, and ` -> PATH2` part is shown only when `PATH1` corresponds to a different path in the -index/worktree (i.e. renamed). - -For unmerged entries, `X` shows the status of stage #2 (i.e. ours) and `Y` -shows the status of stage #3 (i.e. theirs). - -For entries that do not have conflicts, `X` shows the status of the index, -and `Y` shows the status of the work tree. For untracked paths, `XY` are -`??`. +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: + +* ' ' = unmodified +* 'M' = modified +* 'A' = added +* 'D' = deleted +* 'R' = renamed +* 'C' = copied +* 'U' = updated but unmerged + +Ignored files are not listed. X Y Meaning ------------------------------------------------- [MD] not updated M [ MD] updated in index A [ MD] added to index - D [ MD] deleted from index + D [ M] deleted from index R [ MD] renamed in index C [ MD] copied in index [MARC] index and work tree matches @@ -104,6 +120,15 @@ and `Y` shows the status of the work tree. For untracked paths, `XY` are ? ? untracked ------------------------------------------------- +There is 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 ------------- |