Git: how to get all the files changed and new files in a folder or zip?

Git Problem Overview

As my question says, after changing files and adding new files in my repository, I normally commit files with git, but sometimes I need all the modified / changed files copied to a folder for organizing-myself reasons.

Any option?

Git Solutions

Solution 1 - Git

Assuming you mean you haven't yet committed, and want to package up all of the files that currently have local modifications, you can get the list of modified files with git ls-files --modified. If you want the files which were changed by the last commit, you could use git diff --name-only HEAD^. Where you go from there is up to you. Examples:

zip modified-files.zip $(git ls-files --modified)
cp $(git ls-files --modified) ../modified-files

Note that this is using the versions of files in the working tree currently.

If you have spaces in filenames, you'll have to go to a little more trouble.

(Of course, depending on what you're really trying to do, you might be looking for git stash, which stashes away all modified files and leaves you with a clean working tree, or you could simply want to make a temporary branch to commit to.)

Solution 2 - Git

To do exactly what you requested (assuming you already committed and want to create an archive of the files changed by the last commit), you could do:

git archive --format=zip HEAD `git diff HEAD^ HEAD --name-only` > a.zip

If you have removed files in a commit, to prevent a pathspec error use --diff-filter=d:

git archive --format=zip HEAD `git diff --diff-filter=d HEAD^ HEAD --name-only` > a.zip

But maybe you actually want to create a patch using:

git diff HEAD^ HEAD > a.patch

and apply this patch where you need it using:

patch -p1 < a.patch

Of course, applying a patch only works if your target directory already contains the old version of your repository.

Solution 3 - Git

If you use TortoiseGIt, it provides this too.
Choose the folder, in explorer
Right click,Choose menu, TortoiseGit-> Show Log.

Select working directory and the last commiitted version.
Right click. Compare revisions. Select files you want to save/export.
Right Click. Export to folder. Done.

Solution 4 - Git

Zip the modified and newly created files in the git repository

zip mychanges.zip $({ (git ls-files --others --exclude-standard) ; (git ls-files --modified)})

Solution 5 - Git

Assuming you don't have deleted or renamed files, this should do the trick

Copy:

cp --parents $(git status -s | egrep "M|A|AM" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev) destination_folder

Zip:

zip modified.zip $(git status -s | egrep "M|A|AM" | rev | cut -d" " -f1 | rev)

Solution 6 - Git

mkdir -p /c/temp/blah && cp $(git diff <your commit hash> --name-only) /c/temp/blah

I'm using Git Bash on windows.

Solution 7 - Git

Had the same requirement. Got the input from the first answer and created a tool (Windows Only) for myself. Which copies all the added/ modified files to a backup folder.

Git-Uncommited-Files-Backup-Tool-Windows

Just wrote this quick for fun. Just posted incase it'd help someone. (Highly welcomed for modifications).

Also, you can schedule backups using the Task Scheduler.

Solution 8 - Git

Here is a script which can make this process a lot easier, it will copy all changed file to used defined directory and also maintain the directory structure of code base.

run: sh scr.sh

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#!/bin/sh
FILES=`git ls-files --modified`
for x in $FILES
do
        prev_dir=$PWD
        echo "MY Dir = $prev_dir"
        mkdir -p $1/$x
        cd $1/$x
        cd ../
        rm -r *
        cp $prev_dir/$x ./.
        cd $prev_dir
done