Export All Modified and New Added Files in Git on Windows OS

2019-05-10

If we use Git to control our source version, we might have some chances to export all modified files and new added files to a specific directory.

There are many answers on the internet to resolve our requirement, most of them work well. However, seems only a feware for Windows OS.

How to Export All Modified and New Added Files in Git to Another Directory on Windows?

By now, we have only found out 1 answer that is for Windows OS, and it works perfect on Windows 7/8/10. Please check here - stackoverflow website.

Let's copy the command and explanation here:

for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %A in (`git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT HEAD~1 HEAD`) do echo FA|xcopy "%~fA" "C:\git_changed_files\%A"

  • echo FA answers the inevitable xcopy question about whether you're copying a file or a directory (file), and the possible question about overwriting a file (overwrite All)

  • usebackq allows us to use the output from our git command as the input to our do clause

  • HEAD~1 HEAD gets all differences between the previous commit and the current HEAD

  • %~fA transforms the git output into fully qualified paths (needed to change forward slashes to backslashes)

  • C:\git_changed_files\ is where you will find all the files that are different