查看 NUMBER 个本地未提交的文件

Question

I've learned I can use count to find the NUMBER of commits a branch is ahead/behind by, like so:

git rev-list --count HEAD..@{u}

But is there a way to do so for uncommitted files?

Just found out git status -suno shows how many files have been changed in a really concise way, so I could either count the lines of the output (with echo "$var" | wc -l ) or just put a symbol to denote an arbitrary amount exist, or parse it in a weird way to see the number of deleted/added/modified.

However, do non "porcelain" and more directly-addressing commands exist to accomplish this task, as parsing commands such as these are seen as bad practice?

Also, I am using this to add to a git-bash prompt; I would normally just type in git status, but would like to have maximum convenience by just showing such.

Answer 1

Ironically, the --porcelain option of git status is meant to be parsed:

 git status --porcelain -suno|wc -l

So while git status is porcelain, git status --porcelain does produce output suitable for consumption by porcelain scripts.

I tried to explain said option in " What does the term “porcelain” mean in Git? "