how do i identify files/directories that were added or removed in a git commit?

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Published on 2010-04-01T01:10:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 1:13 UTC
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I need to write a script that incrementally keeps track of files and directories added and removed from a git repo.

I have tried to use: git log -n1 --pretty="format:" --name-only

But that only tells me which files were committed. It does not specify if it was added or removed.

Any ideas?

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