git ls-files

Introductionary example

Initialize (git init) Create a repository for this example …

git  init  --quiet   repo
cd   repo

… and create a directory and some files:

$null = mkdir dir-1

'foo'               >  foo.txt
'bar'               >  bar.txt
'abc'               >  dir-1/abc.txt

Add the files to the index (git add):

git add *

Add another file and modify foo.txt, but without adding them to the index

'FOO'               >  foo.txt
'baz'               >  baz.txt

git ls-index without further command line options shows the files in the index.

git ls-files

Using the command line option -m shows files that are in the index and whose content in the working tree are different:

git ls-files -m

The command line option -o shows «other» files, that is: files which are present in the working tree but not in the index:

git ls-files -o

Commit the content of the index:

git commit --quiet -m "added some files"

Remove a file from the index and the working tree (git rm) and another file from the working tree only.

git rm --quiet  bar.txt
    rm          dir-1/abc.txt

Then use -d to show deleted files:

git ls-files -d