How to check if there's nothing to be committed in the current branch?

Question

The goal is to get an unambiguous status that can be evaluated in a shell command.

I tried git status but it always returns 0, even if there are items

Answer 1

I'm using this in a script to have:

• 0 when everything is clean

• 1 when there is a diff or untracked files

  [ -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ]