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Is there a way I can see the changes that were made to a file after I have done git add file?
That is, when I do:
git add file
git diff file
no diff is shown. I guess there's a way to see the differences since the last commit but I don't know what that is.
3 Answers
You can show changes that have been staged with the --cached flag:
$ git diff --cached
In more recent versions of git, you can also use the --staged flag (--staged is a synonym for --cached):
$ git diff --staged
In order to see the changes that have been staged already, you can pass the -–staged option to git diff (in pre-1.6 versions of Git, use –-cached).
git diff --staged
git diff --cached
You can also use git diff HEAD file to show the diff for a specific file.
See the EXAMPLE section under git-diff(1)
