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

This worked for me:

git status | grep 'modified:' | wc -l

it returns a number

Answer 2

Try git status -s:

git status -s | egrep "^M" | wc -l

M directly after start-of-line (^) indicates a staged file. ^ M, with a space, would be an unstaged but changed file.

Answer 3

This has lots of answers... but the best command imo (it doesn't require any piping and is a pure native git command) is just the following. Note that this counts deleted, modified, and added files:

git diff --cached --shortstat

The output is only one line:

X files changed, Y insertions(+), Z deletions(-)

If no changes have been made, it prints nothing (not even a new empty line).

It's also obvious how to get the same result for unstaged changes (just omit the --cached flag):

git diff --shortstat

Answer 4

For what it's worth, I prefer:

git diff --stat | tail -n1

Outputs something like:

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

Answer 5

For anyone looking for a PowerShell solution:

(git diff --cached --numstat | Measure-Object -Line).Lines

Answer 6

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