How to show uncommitted changes in Git and some Git diffs in detail

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How do I show uncommitted changes in Git   I STFW ed  and these commands are not working   teyan TEYAN-THINK MINGW64  d nano repos PSTools psservice  teyan psservice    git status On branch teyan psservice Your branch is up-to-date with  origin teyan psservice   Changes to be committed     use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage           modified    psservice c         modified    psservice vcxproj filters   teyan TEYAN-THINK MINGW64  d nano repos PSTools psservice  teyan psservice    git diff  teyan TEYAN-THINK MINGW64  d nano repos PSTools psservice  teyan psservice    git diff master fatal  ambiguous argument  master   unknown revision or path not in the working tree  Use  --  to separate paths from revisions  like this   git  lt command gt    lt revision gt      --   lt file gt

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For me  the only thing which worked is  git diff HEAD   including the staged files  git diff --cached only shows staged files

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How to show uncommitted changes in Git   The command you are looking for is git diff        git diff - Show changes between commits  commit and working tree  etc     Here are some of the options it expose which you can use  git diff  no parameters  Print out differences between your working directory and the index   git diff --cached  Print out differences between the index and HEAD  current commit    git diff HEAD  Print out differences between your working directory and the HEAD   git diff --name-only Show only names of changed files   git diff --name-status Show only names and status of changed files    git diff --color-words Word by word diff instead of line by line   Here is a sample of the output for git diff --color-words

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You have already staged the changes  presumably by running git add   so in order to get their diff  you need to run   git diff --cached    A plain git diff will only show unstaged changes    For example

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I had a situation of git status showing changes  but git diff printing nothing  although there were changes in several lines  However    git diff data txt  gt  myfile   cat myfile  lt prints diff gt   Git 2 20 1 on raspbian  Other commands like git checkout  git pull are printing to stdout without problems

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