How to see the changes in a Git commit?
To see the diff for a particular COMMIT
hash, where COMMIT
is the hash of the commit:
git diff COMMIT~ COMMIT
will show you the difference between that COMMIT
's ancestor and the COMMIT
. See the man pages for git diff for details about the command and gitrevisions about the ~
notation and its friends.
Alternatively, git show COMMIT
will do something very similar. (The commit's data, including its diff - but not for merge commits.) See the git show manpage.
As mentioned in "Shorthand for diff of git commit with its parent?", you can also use git diff
with:
git diff COMMIT^!
or
git diff-tree -p COMMIT
With git show, you would need (in order to focus on diff alone) to do:
git show --color --pretty=format:%b $COMMIT
The COMMIT
parameter is a commit-ish:
A commit object or an object that can be recursively dereferenced to a commit object. The following are all commit-ishes: a commit object, a tag object that points to a commit object, a tag object that points to a tag object that points to a commit object, etc.
See gitrevision "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" to reference a commit-ish.
See also "What does tree-ish mean in Git?".
You can also try this easy way:
git show <COMMIT>