LibGit2 question

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The library LibGit2 is part of Julia, I think.

How can I achieve the aquivalent of:

git diff --name-only --cached

using LibGit2?

I tried:

    repo = LibGit2.GitRepo(".")
    LibGit2.diff_files(repo, "main", "origin/main")

which does not work (it returns an empty AbstractString).

Any idea?

I just want to get a list of staged files.

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If you only want to use LibGit2 in order not to rely on an external git being available on the system, you might prefer to use the Git package instead:

using Git
git = Git.git()
staged_files = readlines(`$git diff --name-only --cached`)

Whether it can be done with LibGit2 I have no idea though.

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