Mercurial has a command to list every file that the repository has for every revision:
hg manifest --all
Is there an equivalent command in Git?
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I am absolutely terrible at shell scripts so this is most certainly sub-optimal, but this sort of thing might do it for you, assuming you're using bash. Hopefully someone else can come by and clean it up, or replace it with something better. I've only tested it on my Mac, so beware.
It ought to print all files in commits which are ancestors of the current HEAD. Save it in a file called manifest.sh somewhere in your path:
#!/bin/bash
TFILE=$(mktemp -t git-manifest)
for sha in $(git log --pretty=format:%H)
do
git ls-tree --name-only --full-tree -r $sha >> $TFILE
done
sort -u $TFILE
rm $TFILE
answered May 8, 2012 at 3:54
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1No need to
exportsince it doesn't need to be available in child processes. If the loop is over SHA hashes, the loop works just fine, otherwise something usingreadand quoting the variable would be better.sorthas a-uoption that does whatuniqdoes. The file won't getrmd when you cancel halfway through, you'd need atrapfor that, but that'd probably be excessive for this script.– Daniel Beck ♦Commented May 8, 2012 at 4:31 -
@DanielBeck: Thanks, I updated it slightly.
mktempdoesn't exist in Git Bash, I should figure out a way to deal with that so Windows can play too. Commented May 8, 2012 at 5:47
git ls-files?ls -Rminus.gitignore". The usefulness in general: one may more-or-less know what is going on, but introspection of the repository gives one confidence that one knows. Especially for beginning users, such confidence makes a big difference in how pleasant the program is to use. Git does not make reassuring its users a priority, which is why so many people understandably hate it until they learn it.