Get all files that have been modified in git branch

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Is there a way to see what files have changed in a branch

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What if it could be as easy as this   git changed   If you re willing to assume that the main branch is called  master   and that you create your other branches from master  then you can add this alias to your    gitconfig file to make it that easy   cbranch     git branch   grep       cut -f2 -d     changed     git diff --name-only   git cbranch    git merge-base   git cbranch  master     Those assumptions will work for most people in most situations  but you must be aware that you re making them   Also  you must use a shell that supports      It s very likely that your shell supports this

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Expanding off of what  twalberg and  iconoclast had  if you re using cmd for whatever reason  you can use   FOR  F  usebackq   x IN    git branch   grep       cut -f2 -d       DO FOR  F  usebackq   y IN    git merge-base  x master    DO git diff --name-only  x  y

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I can t believe there are so many ways to do this  I use whatchanged as someone posted before  just with the following arguments   git whatchanged --name-only --pretty    origin  HEAD   This just lists the filenames  and only the ones that changed on the current branch

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git show --stat origin branch name   This will give you a list of the files that have been added or modified under this branch

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For some reason no one mentioned git-tree  See https   stackoverflow com a 424142 1657819  git-tree is preferred because it s a plumbing command  meant to be programmatic  and  presumably  faster    assuming base branch is master   git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r master  branch-name   However this will show you all files which were affected in the branch  if you want to see explicitly modified files only  you can use --diff-filter   git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r master  branch-name --diff-filter M   Also one can use --name-status instead of --name-only to see the status of the files  A M D and so on

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amazed this has not been said so far   git diff master   branch   So see the changes only on branch  To check the current branch use   git diff master      Thanks to jqr   This is short hand for  git diff   git merge-base master branch  branch   so the merge base  the most recent common commit between the branches  and the branch tip  Also using origin master instead of just master will help in case your local master is dated

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I use grep so I only get the lines with diff --git which are the files path   git diff branchA branchB   grep  diff --git     OUTPUTS ALL FILES WITH CHANGES  SIMPLE HA    diff --git a package-lock json b package-lock json

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Update Nov 2020  To get the list of files modified  and committed   in the current branch you can use the shortest console command using standard git  git diff --name-only master      If your local  quot master quot  branch is outdated  behind the remote   add a remote name  assuming its  quot origin quot   git diff --name-only origin master     If you want to include uncommitted changes as well  remove the      git diff --name-only master  If you use different main branch name  eg   quot main quot    substitute it  git diff --name-only origin main     If your want to output to stdout  so its copyable  git diff --name-only master      cat    per really nice detailed explanation of different options https   blog jpalardy com posts git-how-to-find-modified-files-on-a-branch

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I really liked  twalberg s answer but I didn t want to have to type the current branch name all the time  So I m using this   git diff --name-only   git merge-base master HEAD

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Considering you re on a feature branch and you want to check which files have changed compared to master    just this  git diff --name-only master

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An alternative to the answer by  Marco Ponti  and avoiding the checkout   git diff --name-only  lt notMainDev gt    git merge-base  lt notMainDev gt   lt mainDev gt     If your particular shell doesn t understand the     construct  use back-ticks instead

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All you have to do is the following   git checkout  lt notMainDev gt  git diff --name-only  lt mainDev gt    This will show you only the filenames that are different between the two branches

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git whatchanged seems to be a good alternative

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git diff --name-only master   branch-name   to which we want to compare

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The following batch file is based on twalberg s answer but will work in Windows    ECHO OFF C                                    lt    OR USE A DIFFERENT DRIVE CD  path to where git files are      lt    CHANGE TO THE ACTUAL PATH SET  p b  Enter full path of an ALREADY MERGED branch to compare with origin master    bash --login -i -c  git diff --name-only  b    git merge-base  b1  origin drop2 master   PAUSE   The above assumes that the main branch is origin master and that git bash was included when Git was installed  and its location is in the path environment   I actually needed to show the actual differences using a configured diff tool  kdiff3  so substituted the following bash command above   bash --login -i -c  git difftool --dir-diff  b    git merge-base  b1  origin drop2 master

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The accepted answer - git diff --name-only  lt notMainDev gt    git merge-base  lt notMainDev gt   lt mainDev gt   - is very close  but I noticed that it got the status wrong for deletions  I added a file in a branch  and yet this command  using --name-status  gave the file I deleted  A  status and the file I added  D  status   I had to use this command instead   git diff --name-only   git merge-base  lt notMainDev gt   lt mainDev gt

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