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When I do git status in a subfolder of my repository it includes the status of parent folders also.
Is there a way to constrain git-status to just a particular folder?
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Create an empty . gitignore file inside the empty folder that you would like to commit. Git will only track Files and the changes in them. So folders are tracked as part of the file changes in them.
The git status command displays the state of the working directory and the staging area. It lets you see which changes have been staged, which haven't, and which files aren't being tracked by Git. Status output does not show you any information regarding the committed project history.
git. Git uses this special subdirectory to store all the information about the project, including all files and sub-directories located within the project's directory. If we ever delete the . git subdirectory, we will lose the project's history. Next, we will change the default branch to be called main .
It will add all the Folders , Subfolders and files to the existing repo.
git status . will show the status of the current directory and subdirectories.
For instance, given files (numbers) in this tree:
a/1 a/2 b/3 b/4 b/c/5 b/c/6 from subdirectory "b", git status shows new files in the whole tree:
% git status # On branch master # # Initial commit # # Changes to be committed: # (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: ../a/1 # new file: ../a/2 # new file: 3 # new file: 4 # new file: c/5 # new file: c/6 # but git status . just shows files in "b" and below.
% git status . # On branch master # # Initial commit # # Changes to be committed: # (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: 3 # new file: 4 # new file: c/5 # new file: c/6 # git status . shows all files below "b" recursively. To show just the files in the "b" but not below, you need to pass a list of just the files (and not directories) to git status. This is a bit fiddly, depending on your shell.
In zsh you can select ordinary files with the "glob qualifier" (.). For example:
% git status *(.) On branch master Initial commit Changes to be committed: (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) new file: 3 new file: 4 Bash doesn't have glob qualifiers but you can use GNU find to select ordinary files and then pass them along to git status like so:
bash-3.2$ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec git status {} + On branch master Initial commit Changes to be committed: (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) new file: 3 new file: 4 This uses -maxdepth which is a GNU find extension. POSIX find doesn't have -maxdepth, but you can do this:
bash-3.2$ find . -path '*/*' -prune -type f -exec git status {} + On branch master Initial commit Changes to be committed: (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) new file: 3 new file: 4 If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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