I'm trying to parse the output from the command git status --porcelain.
As stated in this SO answer.
The problem is that I'm not getting any output when testing this in the cli:
git status
output:
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean
And with --porcelain
git status --porcelain
output:
(nothing :)
Can someone please explain what's going on?
If you have no untracked files and no changed file git status --porcelain shouldn't output anything, try to add a file touch new.file or change an existing one an try again.
git status --porcelain only shows status of files in a machine readable format. - Check the exit code in order to make sure no error occurred (!= 0 indicates an error).
As "nothing to commit, working directory clean" is shown by git status you get an empty list of files. - Change some files or stage some changes and you'll see some output.
