This does exist, but it’s actually a feature of git log: git log -p [-m] [–follow] [-1] <path> Note that -p can also be used to show the inline diff from a single commit: git log -p -1 <commit> Options used: -p (also -u or –patch) is hidden deeeeeeeep in the git-log man page, and … Read more
Use: git diff –name-only Go forth and diff!
How to show uncommitted changes in Git The command you are looking for is git diff. git diff – Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc Here are some of the options it expose which you can use git diff (no parameters) Print out differences between your working directory and the index. git … Read more
Lets take a look at example advanced diff from git history (in commit 1088261f in git.git repository): diff –git a/builtin-http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c similarity index 95% rename from builtin-http-fetch.c rename to http-fetch.c index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644 — a/builtin-http-fetch.c +++ b/http-fetch.c @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ #include “cache.h” #include “walker.h” -int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) +int … Read more
Omg, drivers and awk to exclude a lousy file ? Since git 1.9 something you can: git diff — . ‘:(exclude)db/irrelevant.php’ ‘:(exclude)db/irrelevant2.php’ (On Windows, replace the single quotes ‘ by double quotes “.) Ah, elegance! See the quoted answer and for details this answer by @torek
You can do: git diff master~20:pom.xml pom.xml … to compare your current pom.xml to the one from master 20 revisions ago through the first parent. You can replace master~20, of course, with the object name (SHA1sum) of a commit or any of the many other ways of specifying a revision. Note that this is actually … Read more
Try git diff k73ud^..dj374 to make sure to include all changes of k73ud in the resulting diff. git diff compares two endpoints (instead of a commit range). Since the OP want to see the changes introduced by k73ud, he/she needs to difference between the first parent commit of k73ud: k73ud^ (or k73ud^1 or k73ud~). That … Read more
Use git show $COMMIT. It’ll show you the log message for the commit, and the diff of that particular commit.
Using Commit Ranges with Git Log When you’re using commit ranges like .. and … with git log, the difference between them is that, for branches A and B, git log A..B will show you all of the commits that B has that A doesn’t have, while git log A…B will show you both the … Read more
If you want to see what you haven’t git added yet: git diff myfile.txt or if you want to see already added changes git diff –cached myfile.txt