Git looks at the difference between remote repositories and local repositories

git diff

You can use Git diff to compare the differences between any two versions of a project.

$ git diff master.. test

This command displays only the differences between the two branches. If you want to find the differences between the common parent branches of master, test, and test, you replace the first two ‘.’ with three ‘.’.

$ git diff master… test

What will be committed

Git diff is usually used to find differences between the current working directory and the last commit and the local index. (Easiest and fastest)

 $ git diff 

The above commands will show up in the current working directory, without staged modifications (added into indexes) that will not be committed the next time you commit.

If you want to see something to commit next time (staged, added to index), you can run:

 $ git diff –cached 

The command above shows the difference between your current index and your last submission; These are committed when you run the “git commit” command without the “-a” parameter.

 $ git diff HEAD 

This command will show you all the differences between your working directory and the last time you committed, and will be committed when you run the “git commit -a” command.

More options for comparison

If you want to see the difference between the current working directory and another branch, you can use the following command:

 $ git diff test 

This will show the difference between your current working directory and another branch called ‘test’. You can also use a path qualifier to compare only one file or directory

 $ git diff HEAD — ./lib 

This command will show the difference between the lib directory in your current working directory and the last commit (or, more accurately, in the current branch).

Instead of looking at the detailed differences of each file, you can count which files were changed and how many rows were changed, using the ‘–stat’ parameter.

1 $ git diff --stat 2 3 layout/book_index_template.html | 8 ++- 4 5 text/05_Installing_Git/0_Source.markdown | 14 ++++++  6 7 text/05_Installing_Git/1_Linux.markdown | 17 +++++++ 8 9 text/05_Installing_Git/2_Mac_104.markdown | 11 +++++ 10 11  text/05_Installing_Git/3_Mac_105.markdown | 8 ++++ 12 13 text/05_Installing_Git/4_Windows.markdown | 7 +++ 14 15 ... /1_Getting_a_Git_Repo.markdown | 7 +++- 16 17 ... /0_ Comparing_Commits_Git_Diff.markdown | 45 +++++++++++++++++++- 18 19 ... /0_ Hosting_Git_gitweb_repoorcz_github.markdown | 4 +- 20 21 9 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)Copy the code