Can I make git diff only the line numbers AND changed file names

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This question calls for  line numbers   if you do not care about line numbers in the output see this question and answer     Basically  I don t want to see the changed content  just the file names and line numbers

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I know this is an old question but on Windows, this filters the git output to the files and changed line numbers:

(git diff -p --stat) | findstr "@@ --git"

diff --git a/dir1/dir2/file.cpp b/dir1/dir2/file.cpp
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ <some function name>
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ <another functon name>

To extract the files and the changed lines from that is a bit more work:

for /f "tokens=3,4* delims=-+ " %f in ('^(git diff -p --stat .^) ^| findstr ^"@@ --git^"') do @echo %f

a/dir1/dir2/file.cpp
47,7
98,7

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On git version 2 17 1  there isn t a built-in flag to achieve this purpose   Here s an example command to filter out the filename and line numbers from an unified diff   git diff --unified 0   grep -Po   diff --cc  K         - 0-9    0-9    2     K 0-9        0-9             paste -s -d      For example  the unified diff     git diff --unified 0 diff --cc foobar index b436f31 df63c58  0000000 --- a foobar     b foobar     -1 2 -1 2  1 6     Line abov    lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  HEAD   bar             foo    gt  gt  gt  gt  gt  gt  gt  Commit message   Will result in     git diff --unified 0   grep -Po   diff --cc  K         - 0-9    0-9    2     K 0-9        0-9             paste -s -d    foobar 1   To match the output of commands in common grep match results     git diff --unified 0   grep -Po   diff --cc  K         - 0-9    0-9    2     K 0-9        0-9                 sed -e  0 3 s                 sed  2 3 s    n1 g    sed  N N N s  n   g  foobar 1 1 Line abov    grep -Po   diff --cc  K         - 0-9    0-9    2     K 0-9        0-9        Match filename from diff --cc  lt filename gt  OR Match line number from      lt from-file-range gt   lt from-file-range gt   lt to-file-range gt  OR Match remaining text after      sed -e  0 3 s                Remove          from every 3rd line to get the optional 1 line context before    lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  HEAD  sed  2 3 s    n1 g   Add  n1 every 3 lines between the 2nd and 3rd line for the column number  sed  N N N s  n   g   Join every 3 lines with a

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1  My favorite   git diff --name-status   Prepends file status  e g    A   new file txt M   modified file txt  D   deleted file txt   2  If you want statistics  then   git diff --stat   will show something like   new file txt            50   modified file txt      100  - deleted file            40 -   3  Finally  if you really want only the filenames   git diff --name-only   Will simply show   new file txt modified file txt deleted file

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So easy   git diff --name-only   Go forth and diff

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Line numbers as in number of changed lines or the actual line numbers containing the changes  If you want the number of changed lines  use git diff --stat  This gives you a display like this    me somehost   newsite master  gt  git diff --stat  whatever views gallery py      8           1 files changed  8 insertions     0 deletions -    There is no option to get the line numbers of the changes themselves

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The cleanest output  i e  file names paths only  comes with  git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r   HTH

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Shows the file names and amount nubmer of lines that changed in each file between now and the specified commit   git diff --stat  lt commit-hash gt

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I use grep as a naive solution      git diff   grep -A2 --  ---    an output example   --- a fileA txt     b fileA txt    -0 0  1 132    -- --- a B fileC txt     b B fileC txt    -33663 3  33663 68800    word 38077 png Latin -- --- a D fileE txt     b D fileE txt    -17998 3  17998 84465    word 23979 png Latin -- --- a F     b F    -1  1      Maybe you can see a colored output  It helps you to read outputs easily

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Note  if you re just looking for the names of changed files  without the line numbers for lines that were changed   that s easy  click this link to another answer here     There s no built-in option for this  and I don t think it s all that useful either   but it is possible to do this in git  with the help of an  external diff  script   Here s a pretty crappy one  it will be up to you to fix up the output the way you would like it       bin sh     run this with       GIT EXTERNAL DIFF  lt name of script gt  git diff       case    in 1   unmerged file     can t show you line numbers   exit 1   7        echo  I don t know what to do  help    exit 1   esac  path  1 old file  2 old hex  3 old mode  4 new file  5 new hex  6 new mode  7  printf   s     path diff  old file  new file   grep -v     lt  gt -     For details on  external diff  see the description of GIT EXTERNAL DIFF in the git manual page  around line 700  pretty close to the end

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git diff master --compact-summary  Output is    src app components common sidebar toolbar toolbar component html      2  -  src app components common sidebar toolbar toolbar component scss      2 --   This is exactly what you need  Same format as when you making commit or pulling new commits from remote   PS  That s wired that nobody answered this way

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Have you tried using   git dif   grep -B  lt number of before lines to show gt   lt regex gt   In my case  i try to search where do i put a debug statement in the many files  i need to see which file already got this debug statement like this   git diff   grep -B 5 dd

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