What are the current staged changes?

Question

I've just interactively staged a few chunks of a file, someFile.txt. So when I look at the current status, I see the file in both staged and unstaged areas.

How do I see which of the changes are currently staged?

Answer 1

You can see which changes are currently staged using git diff --cached.

With no arguments, git diff will show you unstaged changes in the working directory; using git diff --cached it will show you only changes which have been staged, but not yet committed.