how to take a backup of untracked files in the git

Question

I have a situation wherein I have to take a huge list of un-tracked file and copy it to some backup folder.

I know we can stash un-tracked file using git stash -u but I don't want that.

I just want it to be copied to local folder in filesystem.

Is that possible ?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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git ls-files --others --exclude-standard

From there, you can copy each one to a backup location.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Oct 29 '15 at 06:14

VonC

Thank you for reply. `git ls-files --others --exclude-standard | xargs tar cvzf backup.tar.gz` I could tar them and put it to another folder. But somehow cp copies only files and not a folder structure. Anyways tar works as well. – ART Oct 29 '15 at 07:58

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