git: list all the files that ever existed

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

thanks

From stackoverflow

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

  commit afdbbaf52ab24ef7ce1daaf75f3aaf18c4d2fee0
  Author: Your Name <your@email.com>
  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
  

• Variation on Strager's:

  git log --pretty=format: --name-status | cut -f2- | sort -u
  

  Edit:

  Thanks to Jakub for teaching me a bit more in the comments:

  git log --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort -
  

  Shorter pipeline, more opportunity to git to get things right.

  strager : Hmm, I guess yours is superior. +1. =]

  elmarco : whao, awesome, and fast! thank you!

  Pat Notz : Hmmmm. using "uniq -u" may be faster and more memory efficient than "sort -u" if you don't actually want the output sorted. Could make a difference on big repos.

  Jakub Narębski : @Pat: uniq requires sorted input, so you have to use sort

  Jakub Narębski : @Dustlin: Add --diff-filter=A option (list only added files). Current version (without sed filtering only added files) would fail if you have enabled rename detection and have renames in history. I think you can then use --name-only instead of --name-status and remove 'cut -f2-' from pipeline.