Get changed files using gitpython

Question

I want to get a list of changed files of the current git-repo. The files, that are normally listed under Changes not staged for commit: when calling git s

Answer 1

for item in repo.index.diff(None):
    print item.a_path

or to get just the list:

changedFiles = [ item.a_path for item in repo.index.diff(None) ]

repo.index.diff() returns git.diff.Diffable described in http://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference.html#module-git.diff

So function can look like this:

def get_status(repo, path):
    changed = [ item.a_path for item in repo.index.diff(None) ]
    if path in repo.untracked_files:
        return 'untracked'
    elif path in changed:
        return 'modified'
    else:
        return 'don''t care'