What are short status ?

About

short status is a one letter that summarize the file status

List

• Added (A),
• Copied (C),
• Deleted (D),
• Modified (M),
• Renamed (R),
• have their type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, …) changed (T),
• are Unmerged (U),
• are Unknown (X),
• or have had their pairing Broken (B)

Usage

• With the status command

git status -s

• With the diff-index command (only the status A and M)

git diff-index --diff-filter=AM --name-only  HEAD