[git] How to view the committed files you have not pushed yet?

For example I commit some files, the next day some more files, and so on. After some days I want to view all my committed files and view their difference with the remote repo. Note that I have not pushed anything. I just want to verify that if I push some thing then it will go to the remote repo as I expect.

git diff HEAD origin/master

Where origin is the remote repository and master is the default branch where you will push. Also, do a git fetch before the diff so that you are not diffing against a stale origin/master.

P.S. I am also new to git, so in case the above is wrong, please rectify.

The push command has a -n/--dry-run option which will compute what needs to be pushed but not actually do it. Does that work for you?

The previous answers are all good, but they all show origin/master. These days, following the best practices, I rarely work directly on a master branch, let alone from origin repo.

So if you are like me who work in a branch, here are tips:

1. Say you are already on a branch. If not, git checkout that branch
2. git log # to show a list of commit such as x08d46ffb1369e603c46ae96, You need only the latest commit which comes first.
3. git show --name-only x08d46ffb1369e603c46ae96 # to show the files commited
4. git show x08d46ffb1369e603c46ae96 # show the detail diff of each changed file

Or more simply, just use HEAD:

1. git show --name-only HEAD # to show a list of files committed
2. git show HEAD # to show the detail diff.

Assuming you're on local branch master, which is tracking origin/master:

git diff --stat origin/master..

I'm not great with Git, but this is what I do. This does not necessarily compare with the remote repo, but you can modify the git diff with the appropriate commit hash from the remote.

Say you made one commit that you haven't pushed...

First find the last two commits...

git log -2

This shows the last commit first, and descends from there...

[jason:~/git/my_project] git log -2
commit ea7937edc8b10
Author: xyz
Date:   Wed Jul 27 14:06:41 2016 -0500

    Made a change in July

commit 52f9bf7956f0
Author: xyz
Date:   Tue Jun 14 14:29:52 2016 -0500

    Made a change in June

Now just use the two commit hashes (which I abbreviated) to run a diff:

git diff 52f9bf7956f0 ea7937edc8b10