What files am I working on?

Question

A question I frequently ask my terminal is:

What files am I working on? (including committed files)

The answer is usually gotten by this command

git diff my_current_work_branch..master_branch | grep diff

this gives me a crude list of files that I'm currently working on.

Is there a more elegant way to get this info? All I want to ask git is,

what files does this branch add/modify/delete, relative to the master branch.

git status wouldn't work because most of the work is already committed, (not merged in to master yet) — american-ninja-warrior, Sep 12 '17 at 11:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 12 '17 at 11:07

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diffstat is a handy tool

git diff my_current_work_branch..master_branch` | diffstat -l

will show you each file that's been modified in the diff output.

answered Sep 12 '17 at 11:07

Jonathan Hall

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '17 at 13:59

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You can use git diff. If all you want is the names of files that differ, you can use the --name-only.

git diff --name-only master my_branch

or if you're actually checked out to my_branch

git diff --name-only master HEAD

or if you want to include uncommitted changes

git diff --name-only master

answered Sep 12 '17 at 13:59

Mark Adelsberger

`git diff --name-only master` looks like the answer I was looking for – american-ninja-warrior Sep 12 '17 at 14:01

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