git diff between commits code example
Example 1: git diff two commits
-> git diff 0da94be 59ff30c > my.patch
-> git apply my.patch
Example 2: git diff of a file between two commits
git diff <branch_hash> <other_branch_hash> -- <file_path>
Example 3: git diff two commits one file
$ git diff HEAD^^ HEAD main.c
$ # show diff between HEAD(current commit) and HEAD^^(two commits back) for main.c
Example 4: how to compare two commits in git
$ git diff 012345..abcdef
Example 5: git diff show only files
git diff --name-only SHA1 SHA2
Example 6: make diff git as commit
A simple way to do it is:
create and checkout branch tmp at branch_a (git branch tmp branch_a && git checkout tmp)
git reset --soft branch_b
git commit
that commit must have all the diff