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Bug 339332 - No equivalent to git status for concise state of the working tree
Summary: No equivalent to git status for concise state of the working tree
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 0.11   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2011-03-09 05:06 EST by James Blackburn CLA
Modified: 2013-09-27 14:01 EDT (History)
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Description James Blackburn CLA 2011-03-09 05:06:46 EST 
A user just asked how to find the status of their tree w.r.t. to the repo, and I couldn't come up with a convincing replacement to 'git status' on the command line.

In particular they're interested in a concise status of the working git repo.

For example:
  - Whether tree is in the middle of a merge
  - Staged files
  - Modified files
  - Untracked (but not ignored)
  + Any other states the tree can be in...

I know the decorator icons give some clue, but I'm not convinced they provide all the possible states the repo can be in.  It's also hard to enumerate a Naviagtor tree to find all the resources with special status.

Perhaps it could work by having a Status element in the Repositories view that shows the current interesting changes in the repository vs the HEAD commit.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-08-26 18:36:18 EDT 
The 'Git Staging' view shows information about files and folders but I don't it tells me anything about branches.
Comment 2 Robin Stocker CLA 2013-09-27 14:01:37 EDT 
The Git Staging view now exists for this. For the branch name and status, see bug 416132.