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While working on a team project, we have to look at the committed files to see the progress of past commits. This happens to every programmer or developer who participates in a project by regularly committing code to a git remote repository.

Some people need complete information about it, some people just want to check the list of files with their names. There are multiple ways to view the files.

This article will discuss checking the file list instead of viewing the entire information using the Git command line.

Use git diff-treethe command to display the files in a Git commit

This command is used to compare changes committed in the past in Git. We can take two sets of input data and get the output of these sets (the modifications made between them in the past).

It shows the changes made between the working tree and the index, or between two trees, two files on disk, or two blob objects in a remote repository.

The main command for checking a list of files is git-commit git diff-tree. It should be the preferred method for listing the files in a commit, as it is considered the plumbing command in Git.

When we have to compare blobpatterns or textual content, we can do so by listing the files through multiple tree objects in Git.

Example command:

git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r <sha1-commit-hash>

The above command results will show the file names that were pushed to the remote repository in the past.

Output:

Test.html
javascript/Vue.js
javascript/App.js

Following are the parameter details used in the above sample commands.

• --no-commit-idWill suppress output of submitted IDs.
• --name-onlywill show only the names of the affected files. We can also use --name-statusto show the status of the file, whether it is edited, modified or deleted.
• -rThe subtree will be entered by processing one by one.

Use git showthe command to display files in a Git commit

Following is another way to list files, but it is not as preferable as it is a user-friendly Porcelain command.

Example command:

git show --pretty="" --name-only <sha1-commit-hash>

Again, the above command will show the names of the files that were pushed to the remote repository.

Output:

Test.html
javascript/Vue.js
javascript/App.js

Listed below are the details of the parameters in the above example commands.

• --prettyDescribes an empty format string, which avoids unwanted content at the beginning.
• --name-onlywill only show the file name. Alternatively, we can use --name-statusto show the status of the file.