How to get a list of all files that changed between two Git commits

Question

Due to bureaucracy  I need to get a list of all changed files in my repository for a report  I started with existing source code    What should I run to get this list

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I need a list of files that had changed content between two commits (only added or modified), so I used:

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AM <commit hash #1> <commit hash #2>

The different diff-filter options from the git diff documentation:

diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)…?[*]]

Select only files that are Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted (D), Modified (M), Renamed (R), have their type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, …?) changed (T), are Unmerged (U), are Unknown (X), or have had their pairing Broken (B). Any combination of the filter characters (including none) can be used. When * (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all paths are selected if there is any file that matches other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.

Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g. --diff-filter=ad excludes added and deleted paths.

If you want to list the status as well (e.g. A / M), change --name-only to --name-status.

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The list of unstaged modified can be obtained using git status and the grep command like below  Something like git status -s   grep M   root user-ubuntu   project-repo-directory  git status -s   grep    M   M src     file1 js  M src     file2 js  M src     file3 js

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To find the names of all files modified since your last commit   git diff --name-only   Or  for a bit more information  including untracked files    git status

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When I have added modified deleted many files  since the last commit   I like to look at those modifications in chronological order   For that I use    To list all non-staged files    git ls-files --other --modified --exclude-standard  To get the last modified date for each file   while read filename  do  echo -n    stat -c y --  filename 2 gt   dev null     echo  filename   done    Although ruvim suggests in the comments   xargs -0 stat -c   y  n  --     To sort them from oldest to more recent   sort    An alias makes it easier to use   alias gstlast  git ls-files --other --modified --exclude-standard while read filename  do  echo -n    stat -c y --  filename 2 gt   dev null     echo  filename   done sort    Or  shorter and more efficient  thanks to ruvim   alias gstlast  git ls-files --other --modified --exclude-standard xargs -0 stat -c   y  n  -- sort    For example   username hostname   gt  gstlast 2015-01-20 11 40 05 000000000  0000  cpl params libelf 2015-01-21 09 02 58 435823000  0000  cpl params glib 2015-01-21 09 07 32 744336000  0000  cpl params libsecret 2015-01-21 09 10 01 294778000  0000  cpl  deps 2015-01-21 09 17 42 846372000  0000  cpl params npth 2015-01-21 12 12 19 002718000  0000 sbin git-rcd   I now can review my modifications  from oldest to more recent

User · Answer

Simpiest way to get list of modified files and save it to some text file is  git diff --name-only HEAD   gt  modified files txt

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If you want to check the changed files you need to take care of many small things like which will be best to use    like if you want to check which of the files changed just type  git status --  it will show the files with changes  then if you want to know what changes are to be made it can be checked in  ways     git diff -- will show all the changes in all files  it is good only when only one file is modified  and if you want to check particular file then use  git diff

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For files changed between a given SHA and your current commit   git diff --name-only  lt starting SHA gt  HEAD   or if you want to include changed-but-not-yet-committed files   git diff --name-only  lt starting SHA gt    More generally  the following syntax will always tell you which files changed between two commits  specified by their SHAs or other names    git diff --name-only  lt commit1 gt   lt commit2 gt

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To list all unstaged tracked changed files   git diff --name-only  To list all staged tracked changed files   git diff --name-only --staged  To list all staged and unstaged tracked changed files     git diff --name-only   git diff --name-only --staged       sort   uniq  To list all untracked files  the ones listed by git status  so not including any ignored files    git ls-files --other --exclude-standard    If you re using this in a shell script  and you want to programmatically check if these commands returned anything  you ll be interested in git diff s --exit-code option

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With git show you can get a similar result  For look the commit  like it looks on git log view  with the list of files included in  use    git show --name-only  commit-id A     commit-id B    Where  commit-id A  is the initial commit and  commit-id B  is the last commit than you want to show   Special attention with   symbol  If you don t put that  the commit-id A information will not deploy

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