How can I restrict git status to regular files in the current directory only?

Question

I would like to see the status of the current directory. Because there are lots of changes in sub-directories, which I do not want to see, the following command doesn\'

Answer 1

Maybe there's a more proper way to do this, but you can simply

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 git status

Of course, this fails if there's no regular files on the current directory. In that case, you can use the extra ugly version

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 git status nonexistentfile

And, no, I'm not going to address the case where you have a file named nonexistentfile.