Show cached files in the output (default)

Show deleted files in the output

Show modified files in the output

Show other (i.e. untracked) files in the output

Show only ignored files in the output. When showing files in the index, print only those matched by an exclude pattern. When showing "other" files, show only those matched by an exclude pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically activated, therefore at least one of the --exclude* options is required.

Show staged contents' mode bits, object name and stage number in the output.

If a whole directory is classified as "other", show just its name (with a trailing slash) and not its whole contents.

Do not list empty directories. Has no effect without --directory.

Show unmerged files in the output (forces --stage)

Show files on the filesystem that need to be removed due to file/directory conflicts for checkout-index to succeed.

\0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames. See OUTPUT below for more information.

When only filenames are shown, suppress duplicates that may come from having multiple stages during a merge, or giving --deleted and --modified option at the same time. When any of the -t, --unmerged, or --stage option is in use, this option has no effect.

Skip untracked files matching pattern. Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern. See EXCLUDE PATTERNS below for more information.

Read exclude patterns from ; 1 per line.

Read additional exclude patterns that apply only to the directory and its subdirectories in .

Add the standard Git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore in each directory, and the user’s global exclusion file.

If any does not appear in the index, treat this as an error (return 1).

When using --error-unmatch to expand the user supplied (i.e. path pattern) arguments to paths, pretend that paths which were removed in the index since the named are still present. Using this option with -s or -u options does not make any sense.

This feature is semi-deprecated. For scripting purpose, git-status[1] --porcelain and git-diff-files[1] --name-status are almost always superior alternatives, and users should look at git-status[1] --short or git-diff[1] --name-status for more user-friendly alternatives.

This option identifies the file status with the following tags (followed by a space) at the start of each line:

cached

skip-worktree

unmerged

removed/deleted

modified/changed

to be killed

other

Similar to -t, but use lowercase letters for files that are marked as assume unchanged (see git-update-index[1]).

Similar to -t, but use lowercase letters for files that are marked as fsmonitor valid (see git-update-index[1]).

When run from a subdirectory, the command usually outputs paths relative to the current directory. This option forces paths to be output relative to the project top directory.

Recursively calls ls-files on each active submodule in the repository. Currently there is only support for the --cached and --stage modes.

Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object lines, show the shortest prefix that is at least hexdigits long that uniquely refers the object. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=.

After each line that describes a file, add more data about its cache entry. This is intended to show as much information as possible for manual inspection; the exact format may change at any time.

Show and of files. is the file content identification used by Git when the "text" attribute is "auto" (or not set and core.autocrlf is not false). is either "-text", "none", "lf", "crlf", "mixed" or "".

"" means the file is not a regular file, it is not in the index or not accessible in the working tree.

is the attribute that is used when checking out or committing, it is either "", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "text eol=lf", "text eol=crlf". Since Git 2.10 "text=auto eol=lf" and "text=auto eol=crlf" are supported.

Both the in the index ("i/") and in the working tree ("w/") are shown for regular files, followed by the ("attr/").

If the index is sparse, show the sparse directories without expanding to the contained files. Sparse directories will be shown with a trailing slash, such as "x/" for a sparse directory "x".

Do not interpret any more arguments as options.

Files to show. If no files are given all files which match the other specified criteria are shown.