Since I’d already created these images, I thought it might be worth using them in another answer, although the description of the difference between .. (dot-dot) and … (dot-dot-dot) is essentially the same as in manojlds’s answer. The command git diff typically¹ only shows you the difference between the states of the tree between exactly … Read more
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
git diff can show you the difference between two commits: git diff mybranch master — myfile.cs Or, equivalently: git diff mybranch..master — myfile.cs Note you must specify the relative path to the file. So if the file were in the src directory, you’d say src/myfile.cs instead of myfile.cs. Using the latter syntax, if either side … Read more
To see the diff for a particular COMMIT hash, where COMMIT is the hash of the commit: git diff COMMIT~ COMMIT will show you the difference between that COMMIT‘s ancestor and the COMMIT. See the man pages for git diff for details about the command and gitrevisions about the ~ notation and its friends. Alternatively, … Read more
git log origin/master..HEAD You can also view the diff using the same syntax git diff origin/master..HEAD
To compare the current branch against main branch: $ git diff –name-status main To compare any two branches: $ git diff –name-status firstbranch..yourBranchName There is more options to git diff in the official documentation (and specifically –name-status option).
git diff –name-only SHA1 SHA2 where you only need to include enough of the SHA hash to identify the commits. You can also do, for example git diff –name-only HEAD~10 HEAD~5 to see the differences between the tenth latest commit and the fifth latest (or so).
It should just be: git diff –cached –cached means show the changes in the cache/index (i.e. staged changes) against the current HEAD. –staged is a synonym for –cached. –staged and –cached does not point to HEAD, just difference with respect to HEAD. If you cherry pick what to commit using git add –patch (or git … Read more
You want to use git diff. git diff [<options>] <commit>..<commit> [–] [<path>…] Where <commit> is your branch name, the hash of a commit or a shorthand symbolic reference For instance git diff abc123..def567 or git diff HEAD..origin/master That will produce the diff between the tips of the two branches. If you’d prefer to find the … Read more