SVN's log has a "-v" mode that outputs filenames of files changed in each commit, like so:
jes5199$ svn log -v ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1 | jes5199 | 2007-01-03 14:39:41 -0800 (Wed, 03 Jan 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: A /AUTHORS A /COPYING A /ChangeLog A /EVOLUTION A /INSTALL A /MacOSX
Is there a quick way to get a list of changed files in each commit in git?
Another useful command would be git diff-tree <hash> where hash can be also a hash range (denoted by <old>..<new>notation). An output example:
$ git diff-tree HEAD
:040000 040000 8e09a be406 M myfile
The fields are:
source mode, dest mode, source hash, dest hash, status, filename
Statuses are the ones you would expect: D (deleted), A (added), M (modified) etc. See man page for full description.
I find the following is the ideal display for listing what files changed per commit in a concise format :
git log --pretty=oneline --graph --name-status
This is using a local repository with five simple commits.
? git log --name-only
commit ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master)
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:46:04 2019 -0700
mv file4 to file5
file5
commit 5c4e8cfbe3554fe3d7d99b5ae4ba381fa1cdb328
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:36:32 2019 -0700
foo file1
really important to foo before the bar
file1
commit 1b6413400b5a6a96d062a7c13109e6325e081c85
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:34:37 2019 -0700
foobar file2, rm file3
file2
file3
commit e0dd02ce23977c782987a206236da5ab784543cc
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:33:05 2019 -0700
Add file4
file4
commit b58e85692f711d402bae4ca606d3d2262bb76cf1
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:32:41 2019 -0700
Added files
file1
file2
file3
? git log --name-status
commit ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master)
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:46:04 2019 -0700
mv file4 to file5
R100 file4 file5
commit 5c4e8cfbe3554fe3d7d99b5ae4ba381fa1cdb328
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:36:32 2019 -0700
foo file1
really important to foo before the bar
M file1
commit 1b6413400b5a6a96d062a7c13109e6325e081c85
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:34:37 2019 -0700
foobar file2, rm file3
M file2
D file3
commit e0dd02ce23977c782987a206236da5ab784543cc
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:33:05 2019 -0700
Add file4
A file4
commit b58e85692f711d402bae4ca606d3d2262bb76cf1
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:32:41 2019 -0700
Added files
A file1
A file2
A file3
? git log --stat
commit ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master)
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:46:04 2019 -0700
mv file4 to file5
file4 => file5 | 0
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
commit 5c4e8cfbe3554fe3d7d99b5ae4ba381fa1cdb328
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:36:32 2019 -0700
foo file1
really important to foo before the bar
file1 | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
commit 1b6413400b5a6a96d062a7c13109e6325e081c85
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:34:37 2019 -0700
foobar file2, rm file3
file2 | 1 +
file3 | 0
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
commit e0dd02ce23977c782987a206236da5ab784543cc
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:33:05 2019 -0700
Add file4
file4 | 0
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
commit b58e85692f711d402bae4ca606d3d2262bb76cf1
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:32:41 2019 -0700
Added files
file1 | 0
file2 | 0
file3 | 0
3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
? git log --name-only --oneline
ed080bc (HEAD -> master) mv file4 to file5
file5
5c4e8cf foo file1
file1
1b64134 foobar file2, rm file3
file2
file3
e0dd02c Add file4
file4
b58e856 Added files
file1
file2
file3
? git log --pretty=oneline --graph --name-status
* ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master) mv file4 to file5
| R100 file4 file5
* 5c4e8cfbe3554fe3d7d99b5ae4ba381fa1cdb328 foo file1
| M file1
* 1b6413400b5a6a96d062a7c13109e6325e081c85 foobar file2, rm file3
| M file2
| D file3
* e0dd02ce23977c782987a206236da5ab784543cc Add file4
| A file4
* b58e85692f711d402bae4ca606d3d2262bb76cf1 Added files
A file1
A file2
A file3
? git diff-tree HEAD
ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74
:100644 000000 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D file4
:000000 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 A file5
? git log --stat --pretty=short --graph
* commit ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master)
| Author: My Name <[email protected]>
|
| mv file4 to file5
|
| file4 => file5 | 0
| 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
|
* commit 5c4e8cfbe3554fe3d7d99b5ae4ba381fa1cdb328
| Author: My Name <[email protected]>
|
| foo file1
|
| file1 | 3 +++
| 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
|
* commit 1b6413400b5a6a96d062a7c13109e6325e081c85
| Author: My Name <[email protected]>
|
| foobar file2, rm file3
|
| file2 | 1 +
| file3 | 0
| 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
|
* commit e0dd02ce23977c782987a206236da5ab784543cc
| Author: My Name <[email protected]>
|
| Add file4
|
| file4 | 0
| 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
|
* commit b58e85692f711d402bae4ca606d3d2262bb76cf1
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Added files
file1 | 0
file2 | 0
file3 | 0
3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
? git log --name-only --pretty=format:
file5
file1
file2
file3
file4
file1
file2
file3
? git log --name-status --pretty=format:
R100 file4 file5
M file1
M file2
D file3
A file4
A file1
A file2
A file3
? git diff --stat 'HEAD^!'
file4 => file5 | 0
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
? git show
commit ed080bc88b7bf0c5125e093a26549f3755f7ae74 (HEAD -> master)
Author: My Name <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 21 15:46:04 2019 -0700
mv file4 to file5
diff --git a/file4 b/file5
similarity index 100%
rename from file4
rename to file5
Credits to @CB-Bailey @Peter-Suwara @Gaurav @Omer-Dagan @xsor @Hazok @nrz @ptc
git diff --stat HEAD^! shows changed files and added/removed line counts for the last commit (HEAD).
It seems to me that there is no single command to get concise output consisting only of filenames and added and removed line counts for several commits at once, so I created my own bash script for that:
#!/bin/bash
for ((i=0; i<=$1; i++))
do
sha1=`git log -1 --skip=$i --pretty=format:%H`
echo "HEAD~$i $sha1"
git diff --stat HEAD~$(($i+1)) HEAD~$i
done
To be called eg. ./changed_files 99 to get the changes in a concise form from HEAD to HEAD~99. Can be piped eg. to less.
I generally use these to get the logs :
$ git log --name-status --author='<Name of author>' --grep="<text from Commit message>"
$ git log --name-status --grep="<text from Commit message>"
NOTE: git whatchanged is deprecated, use git log instead
New users are encouraged to use git-log[1] instead. The
whatchangedcommand is essentially the same as git-log[1] but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges.The command is kept primarily for historical reasons; fingers of many people who learned Git long before
git logwas invented by reading Linux kernel mailing list are trained to type it.
You can use the command git whatchanged --stat to get a list of files that changed in each commit (along with the commit message).
git show is also a great command.
It's kind of like svn diff, but you can pass it a commit guid and see that diff.
I use this:
git log --name-status <branch>..<branch> | grep -E '^[A-Z]\b' | sort | uniq
which outputs a list of files only and their state (added, modified, deleted):
A sites/api/branding/__init__.py
M sites/api/branding/wtv/mod.py
...
I use this on a daily basis to show history with files that changed:
git log --stat --pretty=short --graph
To keep it short, add an alias in your .gitconfig by doing:
git config --global alias.ls 'log --stat --pretty=short --graph'
If you want to get the file names only without the rest of the commit message you can use:
git log --name-only --pretty=format: <branch name>
This can then be extended to use the various options that contain the file name:
git log --name-status --pretty=format: <branch name>
git log --stat --pretty=format: <branch name>
One thing to note when using this method is that there are some blank lines in the output that will have to be ignored. Using this can be useful if you'd like to see the files that have been changed on a local branch, but is not yet pushed to a remote branch and there is no guarantee the latest from the remote has already been pulled in. For example:
git log --name-only --pretty=format: my_local_branch --not origin/master
Would show all the files that have been changed on the local branch, but not yet merged to the master branch on the remote.
Source: Stackoverflow.com