git diff

Show changes to tracked files.

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• Show unstaged, uncommitted changes:

git diff

• Show all uncommitted changes (including staged ones):

git diff HEAD

• Show only staged (added, but not yet committed) changes:

git diff --staged

• Show changes from all commits since a given date/time (a date expression, e.g. "1 week 2 days" or an ISO date):

git diff 'HEAD@{3 months|weeks|days|hours|seconds ago}'

• Show only names of changed files since a given commit:

git diff --name-only {commit}

• Output a summary of file creations, renames and mode changes since a given commit:

git diff --summary {commit}

• Compare a single file between two branches or commits:

git diff {branch_1}..{branch_2} [--] {path/to/file}

• Compare different files from the current branch to other branch:

git diff {branch}:{path/to/file2} {path/to/file}

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