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I’ve been playing around with commands to produce an exact clone of svn status for Git.

git status would have said this about my repository:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#       deleted:    bla3
#       new file:   bla4
#
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   bla2
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       bla

With the svn status remake I get:

$ git svn-status
?      bla
M      bla2
D      bla3
M      bla4

This is the command I came up with:

{ \
git ls-files -o --directory -t ; \
git status | grep --color=never 'deleted:    ' | sed 's|^.*deleted:    ||' | sed 's|^|D |' ; \
git ls-files -m -s | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u | sed 's|^|M |' ; \
} \
| sort -k 2 \
| sed 's|^\(.\) *|\1      |'

Some notes:

• I’m quite sure a much easier command is possible. If you know how please comment below or mail me.
• git ls-files -d didn’t list the deleted files for me. Maybe I hit a bug, not sure yet. Git 1.6.2 here.

You can register the alias through:

git config alias.svn-status \!"\
{ \
git ls-files -o --directory -t ; \
git status | grep --color=never 'deleted:    ' | sed 's|^.*deleted:    ||' | sed 's|^|D |' ; \
git ls-files -m -s | awk '{print \$NF}' | sort -u | sed 's|^|M |' ; \
} \
| sort -k 2 \
| sed 's|^\\(.\\) *|\\1      |'"

Looking forward to your simplified replacements.

The git svn-status: “svn status” remake for Git by Sebastian Pipping, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.