How to show changed file name only with git log

Question

Is it able to show changed file name only with git log

User · Answer

I stumbled in here looking for a similar answer without the "git log" restriction. The answers here didn't give me what I needed but this did so I'll add it in case others find it useful:

git diff --name-only

You can also couple this with standard commit pointers to see what has changed since a particular commit:

git diff --name-only HEAD~3
git diff --name-only develop
git diff --name-only 5890e37..ebbf4c0

This succinctly provides file names only which is great for scripting. For example:

git diff --name-only develop | while read changed_file; do echo "This changed from the develop version: $changed_file"; done

#OR

git diff --name-only develop | xargs tar cvf changes.tar

User · Answer

Now I use the following to get the list of changed files my current branch has  comparing it to master  the compare-to branch is easily changed    git log --oneline --pretty  format   --name-only master     awk  NF    sort -u     Before  I used to rely on this   git log --name-status  lt branch gt    lt branch gt    grep -E    A-Z  b    sort -k 2 2 -u   which outputs a list of files only and their state  added  modified  deleted    A   foo bar xyz foo txt M   foo bor bar txt       The -k2 2 option for sort  makes it sort by file path instead of the type of change  A  M  D

User · Answer

This gives almost what you need   git log --stat --oneline   Commit id   short one line still remains  followed by list of changed files by that commit

User · Answer

i guess your could use the --name-only flag  something like   git log 73167b96 --pretty  format   --name-only  i personally use git show for viewing files changed in a commit  git show --pretty  format   --name-only 73167b96   73167b96 could be any commit tag name

User · Answer

Thanks for your answers   mvp   xero  I get what I want base on both of your answers   git log --name-only    or   git log --name-only --oneline   for short

User · Answer

If you need just file names like   dir subdir file1 txt dir subdir2 file2 sql dir2 subdir3 file6 php    which I use as a source for tar command  you will also need to filter out commit messages   In order to do this I use following command   git log --name-only --oneline   grep -v    7     Grep command excludes  -v param  every line which starts with seven symbols  which is the length of my git hash for git log command  followed by space  So it filters out every git hash message line and leave only lines with file names   One useful improvement is to append uniq to remove duplicate lines so it will looks as follow   git log --name-only --oneline   grep -v    7      uniq

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