Show git diff on file in staging area

Question

Is there a way I can see the changes that were made to a file after I have done git add file   That is  when I do    git add file git diff file   no diff is shown  I guess there s a way to see the differences since the last commit but I don t know what that is

User · Accepted Answer

You can show changes that have been staged with the --cached flag:

$ git diff --cached

In more recent versions of git, you can also use the --staged flag (--staged is a synonym for --cached):

$ git diff --staged

User · Answer

You can also use git diff HEAD file to show the diff for a specific file   See the EXAMPLE section under git-diff 1

User · Answer

In order to see the changes that have been staged already  you can pass the -   staged option to git diff  in pre-1 6 versions of Git  use    -cached    git diff --staged git diff --cached

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