Question

git ls-files --others

goes down the directory tree. Is there an easy way to show untracked files only in the current directory?

Answer 1

Use the exclude pattern of ls-files:

 # on Windows, with msysgit
 git ls-files --others -x */*

 # on Unix (Cygwin or Ubuntu), quotes are necessary around the pattern
 git ls-files --others -x "*/*"

From the man page:

-x <pattern>
--exclude=<pattern>

Skip untracked files matching pattern. Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern.