Finding diff between current and last version

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Using Git  how can you find the difference between the current and the last version   git diff last version HEAD

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Assuming  current version  is the working directory  uncommitted modifications  and  last version  is HEAD  last committed modifications for the current branch   simply do  git diff HEAD   Credit for the following goes to user Cerran   And if you always skip the staging area with -a when you commit  then you can simply use git diff   Summary   git diff shows unstaged changes  git diff --cached shows staged changes  git diff HEAD shows all changes  both staged and unstaged     Source  git-diff 1  Manual Page     Cerran

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This will also work for tags  remove the  uniq  below and other parts if you need to see all changes     git diff v1 58 HEAD    The below is the same  and that could be useful for continuous integration  CI  for microservices in a monolithic repository   git diff v1 58 HEAD  --name-only   sort -u   awk  BEGIN  FS       print  1     uniq  lt Folder Name gt      Credit - https   dzone com articles build-test-and-deploy-apps-independently-from-a-mo

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Quick and simple  assuming you re in the master        git diff  checkout id  file txt file txt   Example       git diff asdfioei91819280din198 file txt file txt

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Firstly  use  git log  to list the logs for the repository   Now  select the two commit IDs  pertaining to the two commits  You want to see the differences  example - Top most commit and some older commit  as per your expectation of current-version and some old version     Next  use   git diff  lt commit id1 gt   lt commit id2 gt    or  git difftool  lt commit id1 gt   lt commit id2 gt

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I use Bitbucket with the Eclipse IDE with the Eclipse EGit plugin installed   I compare a file from any version of its history  like SVN    Menu Project Explorer  rarr  File  rarr  right click  rarr  Team  rarr  Show in history   This will bring the history of all changes on that file  Now Ctrl click and select any two versions rarr   Compare with each other

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You can do it this way too   Compare with the previous commit  git diff --name-status HEAD 1  HEAD   Compare with the current and previous two commits  git diff --name-status HEAD 2  HEAD

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Just use the cached flag if you added  but haven t committed yet   git diff --cached --color

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to show individual changes in a commit  to head  git show Head 0  to show accumulated changes in a commit  to head  git diff Head 0  where 0 is the desired number of commits

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As pointed out on a comment by amalloy  if by  current and last versions  you mean the last commit and the commit before that  you could simply use  git show

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If last versions means last tag  and current versions means HEAD  current state   it s just a diff with the last tag  Looking for tags    git tag --list     v20 11 23 4 v20 11 25 1 v20 11 25 2 v20 11 25 351  The last tag would be    git tag --list   tail -n 1 v20 11 25 351  Putting it together  tag   git tag --list   tail -n 1  git diff  tag

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If you want the changes for the last n commits  you can use the following  git diff HEAD n So for the last 5 commits  count including your current commit  from the current commit  it would be  git diff HEAD 5

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Difference between last but one commit and last commit  plus current state  if any    git diff HEAD    or even  easier to type   git diff      where   is the synonim for HEAD of current branch and   means  give me the parent of mentioned revision

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I don t really understand the meaning of  last version    As the previous commit can be accessed with HEAD   I think that you are looking for something like   git diff HEAD  HEAD   As of Git 1 8 5    is an alias for HEAD  so you can use   git diff         The following will also work   git show   If you want to know the diff between head and any commit you can use   git diff commit id HEAD   And this will launch your visual diff tool  if configured    git difftool HEAD  HEAD   Since comparison to HEAD is default you can omit it  as pointed out by Orient    git diff    git diff HEAD  git diff commit id   Warnings    ScottF and  Panzercrisis explain in the comments that on Windows the   character must be used instead of

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If the top commit is pointed to by HEAD then you can do something like this   commit1 - gt  HEAD commit2 - gt  HEAD 1 commit3 - gt  HEAD 2   Diff between the first and second commit   git diff HEAD 1 HEAD   Diff between first and third commit   git diff HEAD 2 HEAD   Diff between second and third commit   git diff HEAD 2 HEAD 1   And so on

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