Git: how to get all the files changed and new files in a folder or zip?

Question

As my question says, after changing files and adding new files in my repository, I normally commit files with git, but sometimes I need all the modified / changed files copied to a folder for organizing-myself reasons.

Any option?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean you haven't yet committed, and want to package up all of the files that currently have local modifications, you can get the list of modified files with git ls-files --modified. If you want the files which were changed by the last commit, you could use git diff --name-only HEAD^. Where you go from there is up to you. Examples:

zip modified-files.zip $(git ls-files --modified) cp $(git ls-files --modified) ../modified-files 

Note that this is using the versions of files in the working tree currently.

If you have spaces in filenames, you'll have to go to a little more trouble.

(Of course, depending on what you're really trying to do, you might be looking for git stash, which stashes away all modified files and leaves you with a clean working tree, or you could simply want to make a temporary branch to commit to.)

Answer 2

To do exactly what you requested (assuming you already committed and want to create an archive of the files changed by the last commit), you could do:

git archive --format=zip HEAD `git diff HEAD^ HEAD --name-only` > a.zip 

If you have removed files in a commit, to prevent a pathspec error use --diff-filter=d:

git archive --format=zip HEAD `git diff --diff-filter=d HEAD^ HEAD --name-only` > a.zip 

But maybe you actually want to create a patch using:

git diff HEAD^ HEAD > a.patch 

and apply this patch where you need it using:

patch -p1 < a.patch 

Of course, applying a patch only works if your target directory already contains the old version of your repository.