How to show what a commit did

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A stupid way I know is   git diff commit-number1 commit-number2   any better way   I mean I want to know the commit1 itself  I don t want to add the commit2 before it as parameter

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I found out that  git show  --stat  is the best out of all here  gives you a brief summary of the commit  what files did you add and modify without giving you whole bunch of stuff  especially if you changed a lot files

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This is one way I know of  With git  there always seems to be more than one way to do it   git log -p commit1 commit2

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The answers by Bomber and Jakub  Thanks   are correct and work for me in different situations  For a quick glance at what was in the commit  I use git show  lt replace this with your commit-id gt   But I like to view a graphical Diff when studying something in detail and have set up a P4diff as my git diff and then use git diff  lt replace this with your commit-id gt

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git show  lt commit-id gt    Documentation for git show

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TL DR  git show  lt commit gt     Show  To show what a commit did with stats   git show  lt commit gt  --stat     Log  To show commit log with differences introduced for each commit in a range   git log -p  lt commit1 gt   lt commit2 gt      What is  lt commit gt    Each commit has a unique id we reference here as  lt commit gt    The unique id is an SHA-1 hash     a checksum of the content you   re storing plus a header    TMI  If you don t know your  lt commit gt     git log to view the commit history Find the commit you care about

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Does    git log -p   do what you need   Check out the chapter on Git Log in the Git Community Book for more examples   Or look at the the documentation    Update  As others  Jakub and Bombe  already pointed out  although the above works  git show is actually the command that is intended to do exactly what was asked for

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