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I staged a few changes to be committed; how can I see the diff of all files which are staged for the next commit? I'm aware of git status, but I'd like to see the actual diffs - not just the names of files which are staged.
I saw that the git-diff(1) man page says
git diff [--options] [--] […]
This form is to view the changes you made relative to the index (staging area for the next commit). In other words, the differences are what you could tell git to further add to the index but you still haven't. You can stage these changes by using git-add(1).
Unfortunately, I can't quite make sense of this. There must be some handy one-liner which I could create an alias for, right?
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The Default Answer (at the command line) or $ git diff --staged which is an alias.
The Source Control icon in the Activity Bar on the left will always indicate an overview of how many changes you currently have in your repository. Selecting the icon will show you the details of your current repository changes: CHANGES, STAGED CHANGES and MERGE CHANGES.
This is done by adding a change to the Staging Area or, put simply, by "staging" it. A change can be as granular as a single changed line in a file, leading to very precise commits. If, after staging a change, you decide you don't want that change to go into the next commit, you can also "unstage" it, again.
01 Adding changes html have been staged. This means that git knows about the change, but it is not permanent in the repository. The next commit will include the changes staged. Should you decide not to commit the change, the status command will remind you that you can use the git reset command to unstage these changes.
It should just be:
git diff --cached --cached means show the changes in the cache/index (i.e. staged changes) against the current HEAD. --staged is a synonym for --cached.
--staged and --cached does not point to HEAD, just difference with respect to HEAD. If you cherry pick what to commit using git add --patch (or git add -p), --staged will return what is staged.
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