Git: how to identify what changed? [duplicate]

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I entered my office this morning, went to my local git repo and typed

git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 2 commits. # nothing to commit (working directory clean)

From this, I can see that I'm ahead of the origin branch. But is there a command I can use to find out exactly which file(s) or which parts of the files have differed?

Looks like this question has already been answered here : stackoverflow.com/questions/2016901/… — CrumbleZ
– CrumbleZ, Commented Nov 10, 2015 at 9:23

Michael Mairegger · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-10 09:21:56Z

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You list the differences to the origin/master branch by executing:

git diff origin/master

answered Nov 10, 2015 at 9:21

Michael Mairegger

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Renaud Kern Over a year ago

Don't you need to fetch the origin before: git fetch origin ?

poke Over a year ago

Yes, but if you didn’t fetch the remote before, Git won’t be able to tell you that your branch is ahead of the remote branch.

Michael Mairegger Over a year ago

@RenaudKern Yes and no. As poke mentioned: it would not be able to tell you that that your branch is ahead. On the other hand it might be that the master branch has new commits, therefore you are 2 commits ahead but X-commits behind.

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