git diff --name-only with no file paths

Question

How do I execute the following command getting filenames without paths?

So, literally, what the command says, "name-only" - not the file paths, just the file names.

git diff --name-only <commit> <commit>

Answer 1

AFAIK this is not provided by git since this is a pretty unusual requirement. For example my first try in my repository yielded about a dozen lines, each saying pom.xml because I just created a new version.

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You can use a small script though. basename is your friend here.

I like xargs so I'd do it like this

git diff --name-only <commit> <commit> | xargs -n1 basename

This will fail if git diff provides no output.

Or for a loopy version

for s in `git diff --name-only <commit> <commit>` ; do basename $s ; done