Suppressing diffs for deleted files in git

git diff -D (or equivalently git diff --irreversible-delete) will omit the diff body for deleted files. I don't think there's an equivalent for added files.

Almost same answer as posted Dan Moulding, but you probably want to specify what you don't want to show, and for hide deleted files it will be:

git diff --diff-filter=d

You also may use -M which try to find files that was moved

git diff -M -D 

more may get more info with: git diff --help (option -B also could be interesting)

In Git versions 1.8.5 and newer, you can do this using the --diff-filter option and specifying "d" (lowercase) to tell it to exclude deleted files.

$ git diff --diff-filter=d

In Git versions older than 1.8.5, you can do this with the --diff-filter option and specifying all but the "D" (deleted) criteria:

$ git diff --diff-filter=ACMRTUXB