How to have git log show filenames like svn log -v

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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

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A summary of answers with example output

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

User · Answer

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   lt branch name gt    This can then be extended to use the various options that contain the file name   git log --name-status --pretty format   lt branch name gt   git log --stat --pretty format   lt branch name gt    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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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 lt   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

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I generally use these to get the logs      git log --name-status --author   lt Name of author gt   --grep   lt text from Commit message gt      git log --name-status --grep   lt text from Commit message gt

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NOTE  git whatchanged is deprecated  use git log instead     New users are encouraged to use   git-log 1  instead  The   whatchanged command 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 log was 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    References   https   git-scm com docs git-whatchanged

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Another useful command would be git diff-tree  lt hash gt  where hash can be also a hash range  denoted by  lt old gt    lt new gt 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

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I use this   git log --name-status  lt branch gt    lt branch gt    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

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For full path names of changed files   git log --name-only   For full path names and status of changed files   git log --name-status   For abbreviated pathnames and a diffstat of changed files   git log --stat   There s a lot more options  check out the docs

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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

User · Answer

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

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