git count files in the staged index

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to easily count the files in my uncommitted index.

I\'ve tried:

git status | grep \'#\' | wc -l

but there

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I prefer:

git diff --stat | tail -n1

Outputs something like:

10 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)