List all the files that ever existed in a Git repository

Question

Do you have a clean way to list all the files that ever existed in specified branch?

Answer 1

You can run git-log --name-status, which echoes something like:

commit afdbbaf52ab24ef7ce1daaf75f3aaf18c4d2fee0
Author: Your Name 
Date:   Tue Aug 12 13:28:34 2008 -0700

    Added test file.

A       test

Then extract files added:

git-log --name-status | sed -ne 's/^A[^u]//p' | sort -u