Question

I want to list the files currently tracked in a git repository.

So, I do git ls-files. However doing so, gives me the entire list including all the sub-directories, their sub-directories and so on..

I do not want this. Is there a way where I can specify the depth of the output of ls-files command?

Suppose I have a git repo:

mainrepo/
   sub-dir1
       subdir1.1
          subdir1.1.1
   sub-dir2

I only want to go to depth 1, perse. That means I only want ls-files to ouput

sub-dir1
sub-dir2

Answer 1

A somewhat rudimentary way is to strip each line up to (and including) an optional / character, and get the unique lines from that:

$ git ls-files | cut -f1 -d/ | uniq

(Note that I haven’t been able to test this personally yet, because I’m on Windows using a limited Bash shell.)