is it possible to `git status` only modified files?

Is it possible to have git status only show the modified files due, in my case, to having too many staged files?

You can't do this with git status, but you could use git ls-files -m to show all modified files.

It looks like git status -uno will show you only files that git is tracking, without showing anything else in the directory. Not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps accomplishes the same thing (getting a readable-length list of files that git tracks).

For modified files:

git status | grep modified:

git status -s | awk '{if ($1 == "M") print $2}'

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=M

git diff --name-only works too.

You can use

$ git status -uno 

to list only modified files.

I was looking for the same info and found following gives modified files:

git status -uno

To list the modified files use:

git ls-files -m

If you want just the basename (no path) then you can pipe each result to the basename command using xargs, line by line:

git ls-files -m | xargs -L 1 basename

>The problem is i have too many staged files that i don't want to commit or gitignore at the moment and i can't scroll up.

While this may not directly answer the question of listing only modified files, it may help limit the number of files that are listed.

You can pass a path to git status to limit the output to a specific folder in the repo.

For example:

git status app
git status spec
git status src/components

I use this command :

$ git status -sb -uno | grep -v "^\sD\s"

And the output looks like this :

## master...origin/master
 M GNUmakefile
 M include/mp4v2/project.h

Update

open the .gitconfig

[user]
     name = ...
     email = ...
[alias]
    # 👇 add below code
	mySt = "!f() {\
		inputType=${1:-" "};\
		git status -s | grep "\\ $inputType" |\
		sed -e 's/ / /'   ;\
	}; f"

explain: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62772985/9935654

usage

> git mySt M : show modified: > > git mySt M *.md : Show all *.md, which was modified. > > git mySt D : deleted: >
> git mySt : same as the git status -s >

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OS: windows

The following command will display all lines containing "modified:", "renamed:" or "new file:"

git status | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:"

If you want to specified file type: (for example *.py *.ini)

git status *.py *.ini | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:"

If you think it’s too much trouble typing so much:

1. create a batch file (for example: st.bat)

2. write contents as following:

   @echo off
   :: st.bat  (this line doesn't necessarily. ( just let you know the scripts name.))
   git status %~1 | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:"
   

3. add environment path which contains your batch file. (st.bat)

4. usage

   st.bat "*.py *.ini"
   

   (note: if type > 1 then must add the semicolon)

OS: LINUX

as @Lance says you can try

git status | grep modified:

One alternative is to have the results on a single line via -s which can limit what is being shown.

git status -s

Shown under windows Terminal with Powerline/Posh git.

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This command is so handy in that I added it as an alias used as git stati

[alias]
   stati = !git status -s

I use git cola. Its a simple and elegant UI client that will show you the modified files and provide you with a diff like shot of the changes you made.

git cola provides you with a GUI where you can visualize which files you modified, which you staged, and even those you don't track. Your question was to use git status only I believe, but I thought git cola can help when that and other things as well. Check this web page from more info: git-cola.github.com/screenshots.html

If you want to list the modified files, you could do this:

git log -n1 --oneline --name-status | grep '^M'

To list all modified files use:

git show --stat --oneline HEAD

All great answers; just FEI, "git checkout " (switching to or in the same branch) appears to show only modified files.