Suppressing diffs for deleted files in git

Question

I want to get a quick overview of the local changes in my repository, but I don't want a diff that shows deleted files, since every single line is a minus.

Basically, I want something like 'git diff HEAD <list of modified files only>' . In an ideal world, it would be preceded by the list of deleted and added files, but not show the diffs within them.

I was most of the way through writing a utility that does this:

git diff HEAD `git status | grep modified | cut -d : -f 2`

when I wondered if there was some git-y way to do it instead. Is there a flag I'm missing? I'd love to preserve the color output, too.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

张贴几乎相同的答案Dan Moulding ，但你可能要指定你不想要的东西来展示，并隐藏删除的文件将是：

git diff --diff-filter=d

Answer 4

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)