git-ls-files: command not found

Question

I googled this command and it said it is provided via git-man, which I have installed. Anybody having issues with this command not being found?

It appears based on git-ls-files manpage that we can use git ls-files. However, this breaks existing tool. Is there a workaround for this?

/usr/bin/git-ls-files

#!/usr/bin/bash
git ls-files $args

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Answer 1

git-ls-files is a manual page on Ubuntu. A search with apt-file search git-ls-files confirmed it.

If you want to use git-ls-files instead of git ls-files, create a symlink for it:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/git /usr/local/bin/git-ls-files

Unless some other program depends on this name, I'd just use git ls-files, the only difference is the first separator, dash (-) vs a space ().

If you wish to create such an alias for each git command, run the below bash command:

for file in /usr/lib/git-core/*; do name=${file##*/}; [[ $name != git ]] && [ -x "$file" ] && sudo ln -s "$file" "/usr/local/bin/$name"; done

This will create the symlinks in /usr/local/bin.