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

Maybe it was not available 9 years ago, but as of 2019, ls-files is much faster than diff --stat:

git ls-files --cached | wc -l