16

Using git list-files gives me the directories and the files tracked within. Is there a command like: 

git list-directories

or something similar that lists only the tracked non-empty non-recursive directory names?

Rob Bednark
  • 22,937
  • 20
  • 77
  • 112
tmaric
  • 5,045
  • 4
  • 35
  • 70
  • 2
    Probably not. Git tracks files, not directories. You might be able to somehow derive that information from the `list-files` command though and define a git alias that does what you want. – Ajedi32 Nov 27 '13 at 16:12
  • @Ajedi32 Thanks, then I'll do that. – tmaric Nov 27 '13 at 16:13
  • Cool. Once you figure it out be sure to post an answer here for the benefit of anyone else who might have the same question in the future. – Ajedi32 Nov 27 '13 at 16:16

2 Answers2

21

git ls-files | xargs -n 1 dirname | uniq

Rob Bednark
  • 22,937
  • 20
  • 77
  • 112
CDub
  • 12,860
  • 4
  • 50
  • 66
  • I'd do a sed, `...|sed s,/[^/]*$,,|uniq`, avoiding `xargs -n 1` seems like a good rule of thumb to me. – jthill Nov 27 '13 at 16:30
  • 1
    @CDub : This gives out the subdirectories as well. Still useful though. – tmaric Nov 27 '13 at 16:31
  • 1
    Why wouldn't you want subdirectories? – CDub Nov 27 '13 at 16:32
  • 1
    @CDub: I'm tracking directories that define simulation test cases. There are a lot of subdirectories. When the parameters I'm using to set up the tests differ strongly in numbers and values, I create another test and start tracking it with git, I don't have it defined as another version of the same directory in that case. Once the algorithm is up and running I need to decide which tests to keep, so I need to do some cleaning up: so I only want to list the top level directories to see if I am tracking all of them, or which ones are not tracked. – tmaric Nov 27 '13 at 16:57
  • I believe that this misses directories that have no files, just other directories. Here is a method that considers them as well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54162211/895245 – Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事 Jan 12 '19 at 17:39
  • this won't work if file names contain newlines. See [Why *not* parse `ls` (and what to do instead)?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/128985/44425) – phuclv Jun 11 '20 at 07:35
1
git ls-tree -rt HEAD:./ | awk '{if ($2 == "tree") print $4;}'

If the files may contain spaces, we would have to play around with: Using awk to print all columns from the nth to the last which is not very fun.

-r makes it recurse, and -t makes it print trees when recursing, which is turned off by default.

I was unable to use ls-tree as mentioned at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20247815/895245 because it is hard to deal with directories that have no files, just other directories.

This method also shows empty trees.

Tested on Git 2.19.0.

Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事
  • 302,449
  • 85
  • 1,093
  • 879