Determine if workdir has changes and index has staged changes (libgit2)

Question

I've looked in repository.h, index.h and didn't found how to determine if workdir has any changes? And also, if index has any staged changes? I'm not interested in details, want just overall status.

Answer 1

Use git_diff_index_to_workdir to check for changes in the workdir and git_diff_tree_to_index to get staged changes. The git_status_* functions do both together. If you only want a yes/no answer then pass a notify callback to cancel the diff after the first changed file is found.