How can I see what I am about to push with git

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Is there a way to see what would be pushed if I did a git push command   What I m picturing is something like the  Files Changed  tab of Github s  pull request  feature  When I issue a pull request  I can look and see what will be pulled in if they accept my pull request    Command line is OK  but I d prefer some sort of GUI  like the screenshot above

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You probably want to run git difftool origin master      that should show the unified diff of what is on your current branch that is not on the origin master branch yet and display it in the graphical diff tool of your choice   To be most up-to-date  run git fetch first

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Try git diff origin master  master  assuming that origin master is your upstream    Unlike git push --dry-run  this still works even if you don t have write permission to the upstream

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If you are using Mac OS X  I would recommend you get Tower  it s a wonderful program that has made dealing with Git a pleasure for me  I now longer have to remember terminal commands and it offers a great GUI to view  track and solve differences in files    And no  I m not affiliated with them  I just use their software and really like it    http   www git-tower com

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After git commit -m   your commit message    you will get a commit hash before the push  So you can see what you are about to push with git by running the following command   git diff origin  your branch name  commit hash   e g  git diff origin master c0e06d2

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To simply list the commits waiting to be pushed   this is the one you will remember   git cherry -v      Show the commit subjects next to the SHA1s

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If you have write permissions on remote    git push --dry-run    If you do not have write permissions on remote    git diff --stat HEAD remote branch

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There is always dry-run   git push --dry-run   It will do everything except for the actually sending of the data    If you want a more graphical view you have a bunch of options   Tig and the gitk script that come with git both display the current branch of your local copy and the branch of the remote or origin     So any commits you make that are after the origin are the commits that will be pushed   Open gitk from shell while in the branch you want to push by typing gitk amp   then to see the difference between what is on the remote and what you are about to push to the remote  select your local unpushed commit and right-click on the remote and choose  Diff this -  selected

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To see which files are changed and view the actual code changes compared to the master branch you could use   git diff --stat --patch origin master   NOTE  If you happen to use any of the Intellij IDEs then you can right-click your top-level project  select Git   Compare with branch   and pick the origin you want e g  origin master  In the file tree that will appear you can double-click the files to see a visual diff  Unlike the command-line option above you can edit your local versions from the diff window

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For a list of files to be pushed  run   git diff --stat --cached  remote branch    example    git diff --stat --cached origin master   For the code diff of the files to be pushed  run   git diff  remote repo branch    To see full file paths of the files that will change  run   git diff --numstat  remote repo branch    If you want to see these diffs in a GUI  you will need to configure git for that  See How do I view   39 git diff  39  output with a visual diff program

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Just to add my two cents    I wanted to implement this when running jobs in a gitlab pipeline on a gitlab runner   The best way to do this was to use this script   git diff --name-only  CI COMMIT BEFORE SHA  CI COMMIT SHA   Also in my case I wanted to filter files by extension  to achieve this I used   git diff --name-only  CI COMMIT BEFORE SHA  CI COMMIT SHA    py    After that you can for example forward this list somewhere else  a linter perhaps     Hope this will help someone

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Just wanted to add for PyCharm users  You can right-click on the file  - gt  Git - gt  Compare with branch And then you can choose master  or any other

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Use git gui  there you can see a list of what changed in your actual commit  You can also use gitk wich provides an easy interface for reflogs  Just compare between remotes     and master to see  what will be pushed  It provides an interface similar to your screenshot   Both programs are included in git

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One way to compare your local version before pushing it on the remote repo  kind of push in dry-run    Use TortoiseGit  Right click on the root folder project   TortoiseGit   Diff with previous version   for Version 2 choose refs remotes origin master

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You can list the commits by    git cherry -v   And then compare with the following command where the number of   equals to the number of commits  in the example its 2 commits    git diff HEAD

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