How to list all files been tracked by git?

[shlomiLan]

Hey all,

How do I get a list of all file? using git I can run

git ls-tree HEAD -r

how can I do it with this library? the best I could find is:

for file in repo.commit().tree.blobs:
    print(file.abspath)

but that only lists files in the top dictionary.

Thanks

[Byron]

You are probably looking for this:

for entry in repo.commit().tree.traverse():
    print(entry)

There are fields or methods on the returned entries to obtain their name or path relative to the root tree.

[ChrisBarker-NOAA]

To complete this, if you want a file listing, you want:

for entry in repo.commit().tree.traverse():
    print(entry.path)

or

for entry in repo.commit().tree.traverse():
    print(entry.abspath)

[Byron]

I also realize now that even though this is a way to list files that will always work, it will be much faster to traverse index entries instead if one is present, i.e. do the equivalent of git ls-files. But then again, unless repo.git.ls_files() is used, any kind of traversal will be slow comparatively.