List all the files which are not branched in git

You created new files in your project, and now want to see the list of these file. To see the list of files run the command:


git status --ignored --short


This command will list the files which does not belong to git using the status code !!. For example

touch MyProgram.java
git status --ignored --short
!! MyProgram.java

NOTE: For simplicity I’m listing only new files, which are not tracked by git. If there are other files which are version controlled and you added/modified/deleted them, they will also be shown by git  status command

The –ignore option however does not list the untracked files under the ignored directories. For example if you create a directory lib and added two jars (a.jar and b.jar) then the above command will give the following output

mkdir lib
cp <SOMEWHERE_ELSE>/a.jar  <SOMEWHERE_ELSE>/b.jar  lib/
git status --ignore --short
!! lib/


To see the list of untracked files under lib/ use –untracked-files=all option.

git status --ignore --short
!! lib/a.jar
!! lib/b.jar