Show changes to tracked files.
More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff.
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Show unstaged, uncommitted changes:
git diff
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Show all uncommitted changes (including staged ones):
git diff HEAD
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Show only staged (added, but not yet committed) changes:
git diff --staged
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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}'
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Show only names of changed files since a given commit:
git diff --name-only commit
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Output a summary of file creations, renames and mode changes since a given commit:
git diff --summary commit
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Create a patch file:
git diff > target_file.patch
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Compare a single file between two branches or commits:
git diff branch_1..branch_2 [--] path/to/file
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Compare different files from the current branch to other branch:
git diff branch:path/to/file2 path/to/file