How do I get a unique list of files modified in a repository within a range of commits in Git?

Question

I would like to obtain a list of files from a git repository that have been modified or created within a range of commits. Is this possible? I've taken a look at log but it doesn't seem to achieve this.

Answer 1

git diff --name-only ${range} will give you exactly what you want: only the names of files modified in this time.

Actually, it gives you almost what you asked for: this would include files that were completely deleted, not just modified files. It would also miss files that were created, then removed, within the range.

To get the complete picture you would probably want to walk the range and then uniq the results; use git log to get the range of commits, then diff each against the parent.