Name
diff
Synopsis
git difffirst-commit
[second-commit
] [--path
...] git diff --cached [first-commit
] [--path
...]
Show the differences between two revisions. If paths are specified, restricts the comparison to only the given files or directories.
The default first-commit is HEAD.
The default second-commit is normally the work tree. With --cached, the default second-commit is the index.
Options
--name-only |
--name-status |
--stat (show diffstat instead of patch) |
-a, --text |
-M (detect renames) |
-C (detect copies and renames) |
--find-copies-harder |
-R (reverse patch) |
-w, --ignore-all-space |
--exit-code |
-Un, --unified=n |
Examples
To see which changes are already staged in the index:
$ git diff --cached
To see which changes are in the work tree but not yet staged:
$ git diff
To see a summary of changes between two tags (v1.1 and v2.0):
$ git diff --stat v1.1 v2.0
To see the changes between v1.1 and the current work tree:
$ git diff v1.1
To see the changes between v1.1 and HEAD:
$ git diff v1.1 HEAD
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