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Can I make ‘git diff’ only display the line numbers AND changed file names?

This question calls for “line numbers”. If you do not care about line numbers in the output, see this question and answer. Basically, ...

May 16, 2022
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How to show uncommitted changes in Git and some Git diffs in detail

How do I show uncommitted changes in Git? I STFW’ed, and these commands are not working: teyan@TEYAN-THINK MINGW64 /d/nano/repos/PSTools/psservice (teyan/psservice) $ git status ...

May 16, 2022
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How to read the output from git diff?

The man page for git-diff is rather long, and explains many cases which don’t seem to be necessary for a beginner. For example: ...

May 15, 2022
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Exclude file from “git diff”

I am trying to exclude a file (db/irrelevant.php) from a Git diff. I have tried putting a file in the db subdirectory called ...

May 13, 2022
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Show diff between commits

I am using Git on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I have made some commits to my master. However, I want to get the difference ...

May 10, 2022
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How to diff one file to an arbitrary version in Git?

How can I diff a file, say pom.xml, from the master branch to an arbitrary older version in Git? 13 Answers 13

May 9, 2022
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How to diff a commit with its parent

Aside from writing an alias or script, is there a shorter command for getting the diff for a particular commit? git diff 15dc8^..15dc8 ...

May 3, 2022
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What are the differences between double-dot “..” and triple-dot “…” in Git commit ranges?

Some Git commands take commit ranges and one valid syntax is to separate two commit names with two dots .., and another syntax ...

May 2, 2022
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How to view file diff in git before commit

This often happens to me: I’m working on a couple related changes at the same time over the course of a day or ...

May 2, 2022
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git-diff to ignore ^M

In a project where some of the files contains ^M as newline separators. Diffing these files are apparently impossible, since git-diff sees it ...

April 30, 2022
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