On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> writes: > >> My use case is that I do a merge from branch A to branch B. Branch A >> modified a file which is already deleted on B some time before the >> merge. >> >> When I do a `git status -sb`, these locally deleted but remotely >> modified files show up as "DU". >> >> I want to invoke git status or diff (or something else) to get a list >> of these specific conflicts (locally deleted, remotely modified). > > As far as "git diff [--cached]" (which is "compare HEAD with the > working tree through index") is concerned, these paths are in the > "U"nmerged category, so you'd give "U" to diff-filter to view them. > Of course, that would give you other kinds of unmerged entries. > > If you know they show up as DU, why not "grep DU" in that output?
I'm happy to do that and in fact considered it, but since --diff-filter exists, I figured it might solve the problem. I also need a better understanding of how diff-filter works since it technically has 2 sides during a merge conflict. I guess it functions only on the right (local) side. Thanks Junio. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
