Use one of the following: git show -m c05f017 git show –first-parent c05f017 git diff c05f017^ c05f017 There’s a fundamental error in your question: commits are not diffs; commits are snapshots. This might seem like a distinction without a difference—and for some commits, it is. But for merge commits, it’s not. When git show (or … Read more
You could use git whatchanged –since=”1 day ago” -p It also takes a –until argument. Docs
GitHub suggests that you should make sure to only use \n as a newline character in git-handled repos. There’s an option to auto-convert: $ git config –global core.autocrlf true Of course, this is said to convert crlf to lf, while you want to convert cr to lf. I hope this still works … And then … Read more
This seems to work pretty nicely: git diff –no-prefix -U1000 With the caveat: The -U flag specifies lines of context. You might need to increase this if there are more than 1000 lines between your changes.
You can use git diff master..yourbranch — path/to/folder
If the problem is “main and master are entirely different commit histories.”, the following will work git checkout master git branch main master -f git checkout main git push origin main -f
OK, found the answer myself. Adding .patch (or .diff) to the commit-URL will give a nice patch: https://github.com/foo/bar/commit/${SHA}.patch Thanks to Ten Things You Didn’t Know Git And GitHub Could Do…
Use git log to view the commit history. Each commit has an associated revision specifier that is a hash key (e.g. 14b8d0982044b0c49f7a855e396206ee65c0e787 and b410ad4619d296f9d37f0db3d0ff5b9066838b39). To view the difference between two different commits, use git diff with the first few characters of the revision specifiers of both commits, like so: # diff between commits 14b8… and … Read more
In Visual Studio Code, on the left side, there is a Git icon that looks like this: By clicking on this icon, then double-clicking one of the files listed under Changes you can see the Git difference in two sides.
Given that the remote repository has been cached via git fetch it should be possible to compare against these commits. Try the following: $ git fetch origin $ git diff origin/master